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The ideal pedigree must show performance as well as mere 

 relationship. The following Guernsey pedigree is considered a 

 good one in this respect: 



Larger records have been made than those indicated in the 

 pedigree, yet those are good, and the fact that uniform high 

 milkers are on both sides increases the likelihood that the prog- 

 eny of May King of Linda Vista will be strong, consistent 

 producers. 



Fig. 55. — Starlights Excelsior of Jean Du Luth, a champion Guernsey bull. A very 

 promising type to use as head of a herd. (Courtesy G. P. Grout, Duluth, Minn.) 



Community Breeding. — One income from the keeping of 

 pure bred cows is the increased amount of milk, butter and by- 

 products obtained from them, but a second profitable source of 

 revenue is the sale of breeding stock. At present there is a good 

 healthy demand for more livestock to be shipped into the north- 

 west section of the United States and western Canada. Farm 

 conditions in these regions call for cattle. Those communities in 

 which there are a goodly number of animals of any recognized 

 breed are finding more ready sales at high prices for surplus 

 stock than those individual breeders more or less scattered. 



