1911. 
arguments for the guernsey cow. 
I do not wish to discriminate against 
any breed of cattle. All breeds are 
right if properly handled and cared for. 
Select the breed which is properly 
adapted for your trade and locality, 
and then stick to them. Many breeders 
of dairy cattle are disputing over beauty 
and utility, whether we can have the 
two combined into one animal. In look¬ 
ing over any score card you will notice 
the first point mentioned, which is gen¬ 
eral appearance. When you go into a 
man’s herd the first thing you will no¬ 
tice is the general appearance of the 
herd, which will leave an impression 
that will long be remembered. Then 
there comes the productive ability of 
the dairy animal, which in these times 
when feed is high is a great item to 
the dairyman, who must, rely upon what 
his cows produce at the pail; to take 
this feed and convert it into the right 
kind of a product. These are the great 
factors of the dairy business, and I can 
do no better than by introducing to you 
the Guernsey. I will give you some of 
the reasons why I believe that in this 
particular breed we have everything em¬ 
bodied that goes towards making them 
the great breed of dairy cattle for the 
American dairyman. Note the general 
appearance of the Guernsey cow and you 
will find her a rich-looking, deep-bodied, 
sizeable cow with an expression that will 
please every lover of good cattle. You 
will also find her an animal easily con¬ 
tented, free from nervousness of move¬ 
ment and behavior. I have never in all 
my experience had the least trouble in 
keeping bulls of this breed under per¬ 
fect control and easily broken for work 
in tread-power, cart or in whatever way 
you may choose to work them. In this 
way they can be kept for service up to 
an age when a bull is at his best, say 
from five to 10 years of age. I have 
yet to see a Guernsey bull led into 
the show ring or public sale when it 
was necessary to have more than one at¬ 
tendant, and yet I have seen bulls of 
other breeds where it required two and 
three men with extra fastenings to bring 
them out before the judge and the pub¬ 
lic. Just the other day I had a well- 
known breeder of Jersey cattle make the 
remark, after I had led out the Guern¬ 
sey bull Skeezicks, that lie would like 
to see me take out a like representative 
of his breed. Getting back again to the 
general appearance I will state that in 
my estimation nothing looks finer, es¬ 
pecially when on pasture, than a herd 
of Guernseys; the prevailing color of 
the Guernsey is a rich yellow fawn with 
more or less white markings, most of 
them having a white triangle on the 
forehead. 
In every branch of agriculture we 
find men trying to work out plans 
whereby the production can be in¬ 
creased ; and in a great many instances 
we find that after they have labored 
many years, having acquired these re¬ 
sults, they have lost sight of the quality, 
and the results are that the farmer has 
to fall back to that which he raised 
years ago. I remember attending a 
corn show where one man succeeded in 
raising 140 bushels of fine large ears 
per acre. He was almost certain of 
capturing first prize, when to his dis¬ 
appointment the judge placed ahead of 
his a little ear which showed quality, 
and which I understood produced only 
96 bushels per acre. So it is in these 
times when people are more and more 
appreciating an article of good quality 
in the way of dairy products, and it is 
right here where everyone must admit 
who has seen the quality of the Guern¬ 
sey product that it cannot be excelled. 
This the cow shows in the marked yel¬ 
lowness of the skin, which is more 
strikingly developed on the inside of the 
ear, around the eye, at the base of the 
horn and at the end of the bone of the 
tail, inclining to orange on the udder, 
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teats and hoofs, which she gently dis¬ 
places into her product without any ex¬ 
tra expense to her owner. 
At present we are milking 40 cows, 
separating milk and selling the cream 
at 50 cents per quart put into fibre cans. 
We also make some butter which sells 
at 50 cents per pound the year around, 
and to which we add no coloring matter 
at any time. While manager of the 
Helendale Farms, Wisconsin, we had 
some of the Guernsey butter entered for 
scoring at the National Dairy Show, 
which was marked as the oleo people 
now have to do “uncolored.” When the 
judges came to this package they had 
samples sent to the chemist to see 
whether they might not detect some 
form of butter color. 
The Guernsey was the first cow to pro¬ 
duce over 1,000 pounds of butter. 
This record was made by Yeksa Sun¬ 
beam while being cared for by the writer. 
We have recently completed a record 
with the four-y^ar-old cow Honor 
Bright, who milked 12,674 pounds milk 
and 694.64 pounds fat, equal to 810 
pounds of commercial butter. This is 
the largest record of any cow of any 
breed in the State of Ohio, and also 
places her at the head of the four-year- 
old class for Guernsey cattle. The Ad- 
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