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and P. H. Fowler began importing. Soon after J. M. Codman 

 of Boston, E. F. Bowditch of South Framingham, Massachu- 

 setts, and T. M. Harvey of Chester County, Pennsylvania, began 

 to import. In 1877 a few energetic breeders came together in 

 New York City and organized the American Guernsey Breeders' 

 Association. At the annual meeting in December, 1877, it was 

 reported that 193 Guernseys were registered by the secretary, 

 1 14 of which were imported. Then for years the interests of the 

 breed met with but slow growth, until about 1893, when public 

 interest was much excited by the record made by Guernseys in the 

 dairy cattle tests at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. 



Fig. 123. Coralette's Son 3987, second-prize aged Guernsey bull at the Lou- 

 isiana Purchase Exposition, 1904. Bred and exhibited by G. C. Hill & 

 Son, Rosendale, Wisconsin. Photograph by the author 



Characteristics of Guernseys. In general appearaiice the cattle 

 of this breed are larger than Jerseys, are coarser of style, show 

 more constitution, and have a different shade of fawn color. The 

 color is either yellowish, brownish, or reddish fawn, the latter 

 prevailing, frequently with white markings or with white on the 

 limbs or under part of the body. The muzzle is buff or flesh 

 colored and is surrounded by a whitish or yellowish circle of 

 hair. The eyes also are usually encircled by a similar marking. 

 The horns should be white or amber colored, and are often tinted 

 a deep yellow, curving gracefully around inward and slightly 



