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The Guernsey Breed 



I do not find any animal in Volume I that is given as Alder- 

 ney bred, they very early accepted animals from Alderney. 

 Because of this fact, they very early had the advantage of the 

 American buyer, who could not buy the Alderney-bred cattle 

 either on that island or in Guernsey. The Guernsey has 

 apparentlv never been as popular in England as the Jersey, 

 but it is evident from the number of animals imported and 

 recorded in recent years that the interest is steadily increas- 

 mQ-. which is to be expected because the hopes expressed in 

 the preface have been realized in the last few years. Many 

 (niernseys have been 1)rought to the United States from Eng- 

 land, some of them Island bred but many of them English 

 Ijred. 



Felois 4436, E. (J. H. li.~lst fJiize, English Royal Show. 1909. 



The Society early began to offer special prizes at the 

 luiglish Royal, Bath and West of England, Royal Counties, 

 Tunbridge Wells and other shows of Great Britain, and have 

 puldished in their Herd Book lists of the prizes won at these 

 shows. 



While but little private testing is done in England, the 

 fullowing statement, written in 1886 by Sir John F. Lennard, 

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