258 The Guernsey Breed 



able. Very cold winters are experienced and also warm surnmers, 

 so that the breed has shown great adaptability to different climates 

 and soils, and this, no doubt, will serve as a very important factor 

 in the future welfare of the breed in Australia. 



Recent Importations. 



The year 1910 has been a noted one in the Guernsey world, as 

 far as Australia is concerned. At least three new herds have been 

 founded, and all by men who demand only the best. 



Mr. Anthony Hordern, who has a place at Wilton Park, Picton, 

 imported several of the breed, at the same time that his brother im- 

 ported Jerseys and Ayrshires. 



Mr. J. W. Gillespie, who has a country place near Inverell, im- 

 ported four females and a bull brought from the best herds in Eng- 

 land, while Mr. A. R. T. Payne, of Melbourne, who has a country 

 house at Lilydale, Victoria, imported seven cows and a bull, and Mr. 

 W. S. Ruddick, V. S., imported a couple of cows. 



In addition to these importations made last year, a number of 

 Guernseys were landed in Sydney early in March of this year, the im- 

 porters being the Agricultural Department of New South Wales, who 

 brought six bulls and four cows; Mrs. Mabel Dawson, of Berry, who 

 brought four females; and Mr. Norticott of Lismore, who brought 

 two females and a bull. Mr. Hugh H. Dension, of Sydney, has also 

 added Guernseys to the dairy breeds already on his Eumaralla Estate, 

 Gulgong, New South Wales, and has imported three young cows, 

 securing at the same time from Mr. Payne of Lilydale a very fine 

 young bull that was imported to Australia in his mother, but which 

 has since unfortunately died of accidental poisoning. 



There has also been a small Guernsey importation made into 

 Queensland, two cows and a bull having been introduced by Mr. E. 

 S. Webster, of Landsborough. Breeders of dairy cattle in Australia 

 will, therefore, have a very much wider field from which to select 

 Guernsey bulls for use in their ordinary herds than has been the case 

 heretofore, when it was only the New South Wales Government and 

 one or two private breeders, such as Mr. Dixon Cooke, of Alston- 

 ville, and Messrs. Kinross Brothers, of Jamberoo, who bred pure 

 Guernseys in Australia. 



Nearly all the Guernseys imported into Australia have 

 come from England, as Mr. O'Callaghan's book shows, and 

 included amonar them are such well-known prize winners as 

 Hayes Coronation III 1936, E. G. H. B., that was first in his 

 class and champion at the English Royal Show in 1910 and 

 also at the Bath and West England Show, besides taking 

 numerous prizes at all of the great shows ; and Haves Cherub, 

 also first in his class at the English Royal and the Bath and 

 West England in 1910. In 1911, the bull Ajax of Sarnia 

 17793 was sent to E. P. Perry, Parkville, New South Wales, 

 and Mr. O'Callaghan states that this is the first Guernsey 

 imported into Australia from the United States. He won 

 first prize at the Royal Show at Sydney in 1912, 1913 and 



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