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supplying the dealers with whom they have 

 contracted with a smaller quantity of rich 

 milk than they are accustomed to send. The 

 small dairy farmer cannot afford to be left in 

 the lurch. If his milk is unsaleable at a 

 remunerative price, he is able, if the quality 

 is good, to sell cream, butter, or cheese, 

 but where the quality is poor neither of 

 these products will pay. 



The objections which are usv.ally raised 

 against the employment of pure bred Jerseys or 

 Guernseys, owing to their want of flesh, and 

 the difficulty of fattening them after their 

 milking days are over, or of converting their 

 calves into beef, does not apply to the half- 

 bred Guernsey, which invariably responds 

 to good feeding, assuming that on one side 

 she contains the blood of a good-feeding 

 variety. Thus, a heifer bred from a large 

 Guernsey cow which has been crossed by a 

 Shorthorn or Devon bull of milking pedigree, 

 should prove both a good milker and a good 

 feeder, although where it is possible to make 

 the cross, better results are obtained by using 

 a pure Shorthorn or Devon cow and a Guernsey 

 bull. It may be pointed out that well- 

 selected Guernsey cows are among the best 

 milkers known in the British Islands, and 



