100 



The Guernsey Breed 



As early at least as 1883 an appendix to the General Herd 

 Book was added for Alderney-bred cattle, and this was con- 

 tinued to as late as 1893. A total of 40 cows were entered, 

 but nearly all of these were cows that had been taken to 

 Guernsey. The Herd Book of the Royal Guernsey Agricul- 

 tural Society recognized the Alderney-bred cows at once and 

 placed them in their registry on an equal footing with the 

 others, No. 100 being an Alderney-bred cow. Large numbers 

 of cows have been taken from Alderney to Guernsey every 

 year since there began to be an export demand for cattle from 

 (juernse}-. It is impossible to say just how many of the cattle 

 entered in the island Herd Book are Alderney-bred. because 

 many of the foundation stock animals were entered without 



Raymond's Pearl King J5t>U. 1'. S., King's Cup, 1912; and dam. Princess May of 



the HungTjets I'V 7574, P. S. Imported by W. W. Marsh, of Iowa, and sold to 



C. S. Rasmussen, of California. 



the name of the breeder, and some of them, 1 happen to know, 

 were Aldernev-brcd. While I find no written evidence, it is 

 clear that Aklcrney-bred cattle were in the beginning admit- 

 ted, whether inadvertently or not, to the registry of the Am- 

 erican Guernsey Cattle Club. These cattle were first taken to 

 Guernsey or to England and then brought to this country. 



Many years ago the breeders of Alderney started a herd 

 book of their own, but no volume was ever published. Copy 

 for the first volume was sent to the printers, but shortly after 

 the printer died and the copy was lost. This work was taken 

 up again in 1907, and in 1908 Volume I of the "Royal Alder- 

 ney Agricultural Society Herd Book" was published. In 1909 



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