CHAPTER XIV. 



Guernsey Families 



I have frequently, in public addresses and in articles I 

 have written, bemoaned the fact that there were so few Guern- 

 sey families and so little effort being made to found families 

 of the Ijreed. With more careful stud}' of the families of the 

 breed and of the conditions concerning families in other 

 breeds, 1 ha^-e come to believe that one of the factors that is 

 doing the most to develop the Guernse}' breed at this time is 

 the fact that a good animal of the Guernsey breed is more 

 largely sought after, regardless of its breeding, than good ani- 

 mals of almost any other breed. This, I am sure, is an element 

 of strength. 



While there are many people ad^^ertising animals of this 

 or that family for sale, they fre(pientl}' carry less than 10 per 

 cent of the blood of the famil}' claimed, and very often much 

 less than that. While some Ijreeders are carefully line-breed- 

 ing some families with most excellent results, the bulk of the 

 breeders are now after good ones, regardless of their breeding. 



In going ri\'er the list of class leaders, as given in the 

 Journal for May, 1916, I think one would be surprised to 

 see how few of the bulls that ha\'e been known as great show 

 bulls or bulls of a particular line of breeding, and have, there- 

 fore become famous, ha\-e sired anv of the class leaders. To 

 illustrate this point, I ha\'e taken what are probably 20 of the 

 best known bulls of the breed, and this list is as follows: 

 Governor of the Chene, Alasher's Sequel, Benjamin, Lily's 

 Bonny Boy, Yeksa's Prince, Prince Rosendale, Guernsey 

 Champion, Sheet Anchor, Yeoman, King of the May, Lord 

 Mar, Coralette's Son, Prance's Masher 11, Mainstay, Golden 

 Secret, May Rose King, Galaxy's Sequel, Glenwood Boy of 

 Haddon, Golden Noble II, Raj-mrmd of the Preel. 



Of this number, only four have sired animals that are 

 in the class-leader list. These are Yeoman, that sired Dolly 

 Dimple, that appears three times in the list: King of the May, 

 that sired Langwater Hope. Langwater Princess and Lang- 

 water Dorothy; Golden Noble II, that sired Princess of the 

 Blicqs and Selby ; and Glenwood Boy of Haddon, that sired 

 Dairymaid of Pinehurst, that appears twice in this list. 



What are perhaps the most-talked-of bulls of the breed 

 are Masher's Sequel, Governor of the Chene, Prince Rosen- 

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