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will average 4.5 per cent butterfat, taking the yearly average 

 of different herds. 



The official yearly records of over 4,500 purebred Guern- 

 sey cows show that the milk averages about 5 per cent butter- 

 fat; and as the Guernsey grades of the country are largely 

 of Shorthorn, Jersey, or native foundation the estimate of 4.5 

 per cent is likely below rather than above their average. 



This would indicate a total solid content of about 14 per 

 cent, milk plenty rich enough for ordinary use and very much 

 superior in quality to ordinary milk. But the most convincing 

 arguments in favor of the Guernseys are the comments of 

 those who have had her in their dairies. 



Thomas Ellis, Marquette, Wisconsin, writing under date 

 of February 22, 1910, said: "The Guernseys have been very 

 satisfactory with me; we milked 11 last year, four of them 

 being but two-year-olds, and they averaged us $117.24 each. 

 They are doing far better than any other cows in this com- 

 munity, and a number of the farmers are getting interested, 

 and would change to Guernsey if they could buy. I regret 

 now that I did not begin with them at an earlier date. I re- 

 ceived $106.46 from our local creamery in January, 1910, for 

 the milk of eight cows." 



M. L. Welles, Fond du I^ac, Wisconsin, whose herd was 

 in 1909 about half purebreds and half grades, tells me that 

 from his herd of cows averaging thirty-nine and one-half in 

 number for the year he received $4,109 for a year's cream de- 

 livered at the railroad station, a very profitable return for so 

 large a herd. 



The following is from a little circular, "Just a Little His- 

 tory," issued by Lloyd Rundell, Roberts, Wisconsin. "The 

 first purebred Guernsey bull calf born on the World's Fair 

 grounds in Chicago in 1893 was bought by A. E. Rundell, of 

 Livingston, Wisconsin. Nor was this his first purebred Guern- 

 sey bull. He had decided to go into the dairy business, and 

 it did not take him long to get on the 'main track.' He had 

 built a 150-ton silo in 1892, and had owned a Babcock tester 

 for several years. He installed the King system of ventila- 

 tion in his barn in 1894. 



"During the winter of 1888 his herd of grade Shorthorns 

 averaged one-half pound of butter per day. They were of 

 the 'dual purpose' variety — the 'Jim' Hill type, the Shaw 

 kind — good for his children to learn to milk by, and if they 

 happened to 'go wrong' were worth from 2Vz to 3c a pound 

 for beef. He realized that it would be slow business to grade 



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