134 



The Guernsey Breed 





Sequel's Monogram 15469, a son of Masher's Sequel, now having 17 Advanced 

 Registry daughters with yearly records up to 583.24 pounds of tat. 



are making records worthy of special mention are Golden 

 Secret 12599, several times mentioned above and last owned 

 by F. L. Ames; Sequel's Monogram 15649, a son of Masher's 

 Sequel, which now has 17 advanced register daughters, with 

 records up to 583.24 pounds of fat ; and lastly the great bull 

 Galaxy's Sequel 16904, that three times won first prize on the 

 islands and also won the King's Cup in 1906. He was im- 

 ported jointly by Mr. Marsh and myself in 1910, and sold 

 to Myron C. Wick, of Chestnut Hill Farm. He has up to date 

 39 advanced register daughters, with records up to 716.16 

 pounds of fat. 



Breeders and dairymen in America are constantly asking 

 about the comparative merits of island and home-bred cattle. 

 If our official yearly testing means what we think it should, 

 it ought to be true that the American-bred animals backed up 

 by these records are better on an average than the island-bred 

 ones. But at the same time it should be remembered that 

 much more culling has been done on the island than in this 

 country, which may more than ofifset the more intelligent 

 breeding that the records make possible. 



The following comparisons may be of interest. There 



are 1,015 imported and 2,969 American-bred cows entered in 



the advanced registry, and of these 24.7 per cent of the im- 

 Digitized by Microsoft® 



