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GUERNSEYS 



Dairy Characteristics. — The Guernsey is outstandingly a 

 dairy breed. While some members of them, carry considerable 

 flesh and fatten at a sufficiently good rate, they, in common with 

 other dairy breeds, do not place the gain either in the place or in 

 the condition to be most highly valuable. Their beef-making 

 qualities are entirely secondary. As a whole, the cows of this 

 breed yield rather more milk than the Jerseys, but it does not 



Fig. 25. — Dairy Maid of Pinehurst, Guernsey cow that, at four years of age, produced 

 in one year 17,285.3 pounds of milk which contained 910.67 pounds butter fat. Note deep 

 body, well-balanced udder and large milk vein, also the evidence of good care. Owned 

 by W. W. Marsh, Waterloo, Iowa. 



test quite as high. A yield of 6000 to 9000 pounds of milk per 

 year is not at all unusual, while the percentage of fat ranges 

 close to five. Comparing their yield with the Holstein, they 

 give much less milk, but it tests more. In respect to their milk- 

 ing habits as in other points the Guernsey occupies a position 

 between the Jersey and the Holstein, but rather more near the 

 Jersey. One value of Guernsey milk is its exceedingly yellow 

 color. In this respect, it outclasses all other breeds. Not in- 

 frequently butter made from Guernseys on full grass pasture is 



