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tables to the English market comprises a large part of the crop- 

 growing business. 



Introduction to America— In 1818, 1825 and 1830, 

 animals known as Alderneys were brought to Pennsylvania. 

 They were probably imported from England. Whether these 

 were Jerseys or Guernseys will probably never be known. They 

 were known as Alderneys. The first importation to be kept 

 pure arrived in this country in 1850. Most of the importations 

 were made from 18 SO to 1890, or since 1900. The interests 



Fig. 23. — Highest priced Guernsey bull. Ultra Select 47137. Note chest depth, mas- 

 culinity and straight, strong back and rump. Owned jointly by J. L. Hope, Madison, N. J., 

 and W. H. Gratwick, Linden, N. Y. 



of the breed in America are looked after by the American 

 Guernsey Cattle Club, which was organized in 1877. This 

 organization was essentially a splitting away from the Amer- 

 ican Jersey Cattle Club, which, previous to this time, had been 

 admitting animals of either breed to registry. Over 50,000 

 animals have now been registered, of which about one-third 

 have been bulls. The distribution of Guernseys in America 

 has been largely in the northern states, few going south, and 

 fewer still going into Canada. Massachusetts, New York, and 

 Pennsylvania in the east, and Wisconsin and Minnesota in the 



