THE GUERNSEY 



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producing in six months 5611 pounds of milk, testing 5.36 per 

 cent and yielding 301.13 pounds butter fat and 354.26 pounds 

 churned butter, giving a total profit of $59.43. 



Yearly butter herd records of Guernseys furnish important 

 testimony. In 1896, 83 cows and heifers of L. P. Morton of 

 New York averaged 313 pounds of butter, and 35 cows in 1898 

 averaged 5 14 pounds. The entire herd of Ezra Michener of 

 Pennsylvania, for ten years has averaged 325 pounds per head. 

 Twelve head of Hill & Son of Wisconsin, in 1893, averaged 

 382.2 pounds ; 19 head of Sydney Fisher of Canada, 300 pounds ; 

 16 head of N. I. Bowditch of Massachusetts, 397.1 pounds ; and 

 28 cows of H. McKay Twombly, 376.6 pounds. It may be safely 

 estimated that a fair Guernsey herd will average at least 300 

 pounds of butter per head per year, and should do better. 



While this breed has not been tested as much as either Jersey 

 or Holstein-Friesian, it has made some large butter records, 

 from which the following are selected as notable. 



NOTABLE GUERNSEY YEARLY BUTTER RECORDS 



The record of Yeksa Sunbeam, being officially supervised by 

 the Wisconsin Experiment Station, is famous as being the 

 largest official test of butter-fat production recorded for one 

 year. This cow is owned by Mr. Fred Rietbrock of Milwaukee, 

 Wisconsin. 



