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Gordon H. True, Univ. of Calif. 



FIG. 203. The champion Jersey cow of California. She produced 940.7 pounds 

 of butter fat in one year. 



are somewhat larger (Fig. 204). They did not attract 

 much attention in this country until the time of the 

 World's Fair in Chicago, when tests of various breeds 

 showed the public that the Guernseys are fine butter 

 producers. A peculiarity of the cream from the milk 

 of Guernseys is that it is so yellow that no artificial 

 coloring is necessary for the butter. The cows are less 

 nervous and more gentle than Jerseys. 



In order to keep the Jersey and Guernsey breeds How these 

 pure, the people of the Channel Islands have for more keptpure 

 than a hundred years had laws forbidding the bringing 

 in of other cattle except for immediate use as beef. 



The Ayrshires (Fig. 205) are Scottish cattle, and Ayrshires 

 having been bred in the highlands where feed is difficult 



