CHAPTER XI. 



The Guernsey in Other Countries 



The ex])ortation of Guernsey cattle to countries other 

 than the United States and Great Britain has Ijeen very lim- 

 ited, with the single exception of Australia. A few animals 

 have gone to France, Cuba, Central America, Brazil and scat- 

 tering animals to other countries. 



In 1888, the .Sapporo Agricultural College, Sapporo, 

 Japan, imported from the Ignited States two bulls and twenty 

 heifers, selected in twos or threes from each of a nninber of 

 prominent herds in this country. This was before the dis- 

 covery of the tuberculin test, and unfortunately some of these 

 animals had tuberculosis, which eventually destroyed the 

 whole herd and put an end to Guernsey business in Japan. 



The Guernsev has, howe\'er, made great strides in Aus- 

 tralia, as the fnllowing quotatioTi from the book, "Dairying 

 in Australasia," bv ^I. A. O'Callaghan, testifies: 



From the day on which the first importation of Guernsey cattle 

 was l.'inded in Sydney by the New South Wales Government in 1898, 

 the breed has <irown in popularity until at the present time they are 

 the most sought after of any of the dairy breeds by farmers who 

 wish to introduce new blood into their herds. In every district in 

 New South Wales in which the breed has been tried, they have given 

 almost universal satisfaction. Of course, when I state this, I mean 

 that the animals which have been used for the purpose of crossing 

 with the ordinary half-bred cattle, have produced offspring which 

 have more than come up to the exjiectations of the farmers who 

 bred them. No doubt a great deal of this almost abnormal success 

 of a new breed (because this is the first occasion on which there is 

 any authentic record of Guernseys having been introduced into Aus- 

 tralia) was due to the excellent selection which the purchasing agents 

 had managed to secure. Two of the bulls imported were undoubtedly 

 of very high class. These two sires, namely, Peter and Rose Prince, 

 have left some excellent half-bred and purebred progeny in the State 

 of New South Wales. They were two bulls of great difference in type. 

 Peter was a little bit on the coarse side, showing that virile character 

 which many of the best judges prefer to see in their sires, no matter 

 what the animal is that they are desirous of breeding. Rose Prince 

 on the other hand was all quality: he stood out as an almost ideal 

 type of dairy bull combined with show ring requirements. Mascu- 

 linity was well represented without any indication of coarseness, and 

 he possessed all those characteristics which Guernsey fanciers like 

 so much. His type was so distinct that I can pick out his progeny 

 today from those of any other family of Guernseys. This is notice- 

 able even in his half-breds. They possess great length, quality and 

 v:haracter, and whereas Peter has proved himself a wonderful animal 

 in the way of begetting heavy milk-yielding females from cross-bred 

 rows, Rose Prince has made his reputation more as a sire of bulls. 



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