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grade Durhams, Ayrshires and Jerseys, and as a rule the result has been very 

 satisfactory. I am raising about 25 grade heifers each year, and have a very 

 promising lot of heifers and young cows. 



In a recent address ^ on " Grade Guernseys in the Central West," 

 before the Western Guernsey Breeders' Association, Noel Negley 

 reports that of 37,772 cows on test by seventy-seven Wisconsin 

 cow-test associations, 5938, or 23 percent, of the grades were grade 

 Guernseys. The average milk production of 1498 of these cows 

 was 5655 pounds, testing 4.7 per cent fat and producing 265.9 

 pounds butter fat. Twenty 

 grade cows from ten herds 

 averaged 10,153.4 pounds 

 of milk and 508.4 pounds 

 of fat. 



The Guernsey in beef 

 production can have but 

 a subordinate place. A 

 larger and perhaps fatter 

 carcass may be made than 

 with the Jersey, but this 

 presents the same objec- 

 tion as other dairy breeds, 

 — too much offal, a low 

 percentage of high-priced 



cuts, and, in this case, too yellow fat. In flavor and quality 

 Guernsey beef or veal will rank high among dairy type breeds. 



The prolificacy of the Guernsey probably does not differ much 

 from that of the other dairy-type breeds. In 1916 the American 

 Guernsey Cattle Club published some comparative figures on the 

 rate of gain of several breeds, including its own, as based on 

 office records in registration. In 1906 the yearly increase of reg- 

 istrations for the Ayrshire, Guernsey, Holstein, and Jersey breeds 

 averaged 7.66 per cent, that of the Guernsey being 9.3 per cent. 

 In 191 5 the average percentage increase of the four breeds was 

 12.46 per cent, that of the Guernsey being 14 per cent. On the 

 basis of these comparative records the conclusion is reached that 

 "there is more assurance that the average Guernsey herd will 



1 Gueynsff^g^^e^^rs'^onmayA^.y i, .918. 



Fig. 170. Island Champion 62623 (imp). Be- 

 fore importation this bull, a winner of the highest 

 honors on the island, was known as Masher II. 

 From photograph by the author 



