CHAPTER IV. 



Introduction Into America 



It is a well attested fact that Channel Islands' cattle 

 (Alderney) were imported into the United States more than 

 100 years ago, and, without doubt, some of these ^\■ere Guern- 

 seys. Their blood was not kept pure, and the}' became lost 

 in the common herd. The first introduction of Guernseys into 

 the United States, the records of which were kept so that 

 later they and their descendants could be recorded in the 

 American Guernsey Cattle Club Flerd Register, was an im- 

 portation b}' a Mr. Prince, of LUiston, Mass., in 1830 or 1831. 

 These cattle were taken to his farm in Massachusetts, and a 



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Lily Belle of Canterbury 1135-'. I'iclure tnkcn at 20 jears ot age, with her 18th call. 



little later a cow and a bull of this importation went to Cow 

 Island, in Lake Winnipesaukee, N. PI. These two animals, 

 now registered as the Pillsbury bull 5816 and the Pillsbury 

 cow 11310, were sold from this herd to General Moody A. 

 Pillsbury, of West Boscawen, N. H. From these two founda- 

 tion animals, some very good animals were developed in the 

 hands of Joseph Barnard, of Plopkinton ; J. Arthur Jones and 



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