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of Connecticut farmers joining together, and sending a 
representative to the Island to bring over a shipment. 
These importations laid the foundation of the Guernsey 
in this country, and led to the establishment of the herd 
register. 
The first real public introduction of the breed was in 
connection with the dairy test conducted by the New 
York and New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Stations, 
when the various breeds were tried, and the Guernsey 
made a most creditable record, the figures showing them 
to be the most economical producers of cream and butter, 
ranking the lowest in cost of food to produce a pound of 
butter-fat, and in the cost of food for maintenance for a 
year. The Guernseys and the sister Channel island breed 
(the Jersey) stood first in the annual production of butter, 
and the profit resulting from sale of cream. Their next 
appearance was at the World’s Columbian Exposition at 
Chicago, in 1893, where amidst rules and conditions which 
failed to credit the breed fully on some of its special 
characteristics, the Guernseys ranked ahead on flavor 
and had the advantage on color of butter, and, as in the 
Experiment Station trials, stood with the Jerseys in the 
front rank as butter-producers. The last public appear- 
ance of the breed was at the Pan-American Exposition at 
Buffalo, where after a careful six months’ test, the Guern- 
seys were awarded the first prize for the greatest net 
profit in the production of butter-fat, and also in the 
production of churned butter. The Guernsey cows in 
this trial made butter at the lowest cost a pound, and re- 
turned the greatest profit in butter-production for the 
investment of feed. They also ranked in the production 
of total solids next to the heavier milking breeds. Group- 
ing the cows in this test as a whole, the Guernsey cow, 
