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Not that he has not left some excellent females to represent him, 

 but his males were so stamped with his characteristics that they have 

 continued his type in a marked degree in their progeny. This is 

 evidenced by the descendants of the bull Calm Prince, an animal that 

 followed his sire and Peter at the New South Wales Government 

 Stud. The portraits of Rose Prince and Calm Prince are reproduced 

 herewith so that Gu(;rnsey breeders in future may have an oppor- 

 tunity of looking up the type of sires from which Guernsey cattle in 

 Australia, practically speaking, have sprung. Peter was used more 

 for mating with other breeds of cattle than for the production of 

 purebred Guernseys. This was owing to the fact that at the farm 

 where he was first placed there were only a couple of purebred Guern- 

 sey cows kept. His records are best seen in the chapter dealing with 

 experimental work in the breeding of dairy cattle. Referring to tlie 

 females imported in 1898, five out of the six were excellent cows, and 

 it was difficult to say whether Calm, Vivid, Lady Blanche, or Flaxy 

 was the best animal. Unfortunateh' I^ady Blanche died soon after 

 her introduction, and has left as a consequence no representatives, 

 but the other three have left excellent specimens, both male and 

 female, and that beautiful cow. Rose Vivid by Rose Prince from Vivid, 

 is proliably one of the handsomest types of dairy cows of a Guernsey 

 strain that it is possible to find. She has all the qualities of the Rose 

 Prince strain, and all the dairy characteristics of her mother. 



Guernseys got a foothold first in the Richmond River district 

 of New South Wales, probably because there was no prejudice in 

 that new and progressive place, and hence those farmers who were 

 anxious to improve their herds gave the breed a trial. The Guernsey 

 bull Peter was stationed there, and his results were so successful that 

 the breed at once became sought after, until now the enquiries for 

 young bulls of the breed are very much greater than the supply. 

 The publication of the results of experiments carried out at the Wol- 

 longbar State Farm has caused a further impetus to be given to this 

 breed, and now enquiries come in daily from all corners of New South 

 Wales asking for information as to where both male and female 

 Guernseys may be obtained. In fact, at the present time a number 

 of farmers have placed orders with the Government of New South 

 Wales for the importation of animals of this breed from England. 

 This is not a small matter when it is remembered that it costs at 

 least about £100 per head to land specimens of the breed in Australia. 

 The New South Wales Government made a second importation of 

 20 females in 1907, and though these on the whole were not so high 

 class as the first specimens introduced, still a number of them are 

 sufficiently representative of the best of the breed to give very good 

 results. 



Easily Acclimatized. 



The animals readily acclimatized themselves in those dairying 

 portions of the State which show great difference in climate and 

 soils. I refer to the South Coast and North Coast districts of New 

 South Wales, where we have placed imported cows and bulls. As 

 most of my readers are aware, the Richmond and Tweeds districts 

 on the North Coast have a very heavy annual rainfall coupled with 

 an almost tropical heat, and the land is mainly of a rich volcanic 

 character. On the South Coast, however, the land, generally speak- 

 ing, is not so rich and the extremes in temperature are very consider- 

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