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varies from a light fawn to a reddish fawn, splashed with white. 

 The muzzle of the Guernsey should be white and the switch should 

 be white. The Guernsey breed is troubled a little with dark noses. 

 Probably it is not worth while to discard breeding females with 

 dark noses, but a bull calf with a dark nose should not be used in 

 a pure bred herd. Of course, if dark noses are allowed to continue 

 in the females, they probably can never be bred out of the breed, 

 but it seems not worth while to discard promising females because 

 of this faddish characteristic. 



168. Examples of Guernsey type. — As a good example of the 

 Guernsey type, a picture of Mildred II of Les Godaines, 55120, is 

 shown on page 105. This cow was grand champion at the National 

 Dairy Show in 1920. She js owned by Jones & McKerrow of 

 Waukesha, Wisconsin. A beautiful udder, fine milk veins, large 

 size and quality are well illustrated in this cow. Langwater Cleo- 

 patra, 47043, page 188, attained great fame in 1922 by bringing 

 the record price for the Guernsey breed at $19,500, when she 

 was sold to R. L. Benson, Princeton, New Jersey. These cows 

 all show that size and quality count. 



169. Guernsey bulls. — Probably no bull in the Guernsey 

 breed has had as great an effect on the breed as Imported King of 

 the May, 9001, page 47. He has had more influence than any 

 other bull in the introduction of the popular May Rose blood. 

 May we discover many other bulls like him. 



Ladysmith's Cherub, 30670, page 107, owned by D. D. Tenney, 

 Crystal Bay, Minnesota, was the grand champion Guernsey bull 

 at the National Dairy Show in 1918. 



Of course, all breeders of Guernsey cattle cannot hope to own as 

 good bulls as these, but their pictures are shown to illustrate the 

 ideal type to which we must aim in breeding Guernsey cattle. 



170. Guernsey milk. — One of the characteristics of Guernsey 

 milk is to hold its customers. The Guernsey breed is the dairy 

 breed above all others which can well be chosen in case one has 

 opportunity to develop a fancy toward any milk and dairy products. 

 The milk of no other dairy breed is more palatable or more highly 

 colored than the milk of the Guernsey breed. When a customer 



