The Guernsey Breed 



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Grade Guernsey cow Bessie — yearly record, 659.3 pounds butterfat. 



sey Production Register, shall be prefixed to the registry num- 

 ber, followed by F. S., standing for Foundation Stock, if cow 

 is admitted on record alone. 



In all work connected with a registry of grades, the diffi- 

 culty is to get owners to test their grade cows under condi- 

 tions that would make such a register reliable and therefore 

 possible, but without doubt great good will result when it be- 

 comes established on a working basis. Some breeders of pure- 

 bred cattle fear that bred-for-production grades might restrict 

 the demand for purebreds^ on account of lower prices. There 

 appears to be little danger of this unless the grades should 

 prove themselves better producers than the purebreds, which 

 is scarcely possible. For economical production of butterfat 

 or for the highest class of market milk, the Guernsey grade 

 is the ideal cow for the average dairyman. 



The demand for grade Guernsey cows far exceeds the 

 supply, and I have known, many of them to sell in every part 

 of the United States the last year or two up to $150 each, and 

 several for from $200 to $250. I have also seen $50 refused 

 for grade Guernsey calves six months old, and yearling heifers 

 frequently sell for $75 each by the carload. The grades of 

 no other breed create such demand or bring such prices as the 

 grade Guernsey, and this promises to be true for years to come. 

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