THE BREEDS OF CATTLE 67 



Jersey yield the richest milk, the advantage, if any, being 

 with the Guernsey. 



The American Guernsey Cattle Club was the first breed 

 association to establish what are known as official tests for 

 milk and butter production, conducted by disinterested 

 experiment station or agricultural college employees. Since 

 the Club began this work, the Guernsey has made a remark- 

 able showing. Some of the largest butter-fat records made 



Fig. 38. Spottswood Daisy Pearl 17696, the champion Guernsey 

 cow, with record of 957 pounds of butter-fat in one year. Owned by O. C. 

 Barber, of Ohio. Photograph from the owner 



by cows of any breed have come from the Guernsey. Dolly 

 Dimple produced over 18,000 pounds of milk in a year, 

 containing 907 pounds of fat; and Spottswood Daisy Pearl 

 finished a year's record in January, 1912, of 957 pounds of 

 butter-fat. For the number of Guernseys in America, an 

 unusually fine showing has been made in official tests. 



Guernseys were first brought to this country about 1850, 

 and were established in the vicinity of Philadelphia and New 



