American Agriculturist, November 1, 1924 
Why I Chose Guernseys 
An A . A. Radio Talk Broadcast from WEAF 
lyjR. EASTMAN, By L. A. TO AN Guernsey cow as 
1 Editor of President, New York State Guernsey shown by these rec- 
American Agricul- Breeders’ Assn. ords is about 9,400 
turist, has asked me pounds of milk or 
to tell you who are listening in this.eve¬ 
ning, why I chose the Guernsey cow of all 
dairy breeds for my farm. 
I should first tell my friends from the 
city who may never have seen a Guernsey, 
that the Guernsey cow is one of the four 
major breeds of dairy cattle. They were 
originally developed on the Island of 
Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, off 
the coast of France. 
Centuries ago the monks from Nor¬ 
mandy brought with them cows from their 
old home, and through the years that fol¬ 
lowed, through careful selection and 
breeding, developed a distinct breed of 
cattle. 
These early Guernsey breeders wished 
to develop a producing cow of consider¬ 
able constitution, a producer of highly 
colored rich milk. We have to-day as a 
result of many years of constructive 
breeding a cow which not only combines 
the beauty of the show-ring individual but 
also the producing ability of a business 
cow. 
Consistent in its Yellow Color 
The Guernsey cow is fawn and white in 
color. Fawn predominates over the body, 
being broken up in places by white. The 
switch, legs and under parts of the body 
are usually white. This golden fawn color 
is not confined to the hair alone. The 
hoofs, horns and even the secretions from 
the skin are yellow hi color. This color 
characteristic is closely allied to the golden 
color of the milk. 
In size the Guernsey cow is larger than 
the Jersey and smaller than the Holstein. 
Twenty-six years ago this past summer 
my father took me, a boy of twelve, nearly 
twenty miles by horse and wagon to 
.LeRoy, where he purchased two cows and 
a calf only a few months old. That calf 
was my especial property. Like all 
Guernseys, she was kind and affectionate 
in disposition and easily handled. , 
This heifer grew to be a fine big, deep¬ 
bodied cow. I was a happy boy one morn¬ 
ing, when she was two years old, and I 
found she had a nice heifer calf. My cow 
replaced one of the scrub cows in the barn 
and really surprised everyone by the rich 
yellow milk which she produced. No one 
regretted the sale of the scrub with the 
chalky-white thin milk. 
Entire Herd Descends from One Cow 
Our first cow lived to be eighteen and 
her first daughter seventeen. To-day 
every pure-bred cow or calf in our herd of 
forty-five’Tiead descended from this cow. 
We were glad to replace the cows in our 
original herd with the daughters, grand¬ 
daughters, etc., of our foundation cow. 
We found them to be uniformly good, 
heavy producers, easy milkers, and eco¬ 
nomical to maintain. 
What has pleased us best of all was £he 
high quality of the milk. Guernsey milk 
has a deep golden cream line and a flavor 
hard to find in any other breed. The 
milk tests 5 per cent, butterfat, while 
ordinary milk contains only 3.5 per cent, 
fat. There is fully 30 per cent, more ac¬ 
tual food in a quart of Guernsey milk than 
ordinary milk. 
Many of my friends from the city come 
to our farm with the idea that they can¬ 
not drink milk. They almost invariably 
go away with the conviction that Guern¬ 
sey milk is different and pleasing to drink. 
Our herd is no different than other 
Guernsey herds. Under official test, su- 
| pervised by men sent out by Cornell 
University, our cows of all ages have 
averaged about 10,500 pounds of milk 
and 525 pounds of fat, equal to 650 
Pounds of butter in one year. 
The American Guernsey Cattle Club, 
located at Peterboro, N. H., has records 
I covering over 18,000 Guernsey cows. The 
I Production of the cow is supervised for a 
I year. The average production of the 
4,700 quarts and about 473 pounds of but¬ 
terfat. This is the average of cows tested 
between two and eighteen years. The ma¬ 
ture Guernsey cow averages 10,668 pounds 
of milk according to these official records. 
Our own best cow made nearly 14,500 
pounds of milk and 850 pounds of butter- 
fat in one year. This is equal to about 
1,060 pounds of butter. She is one of the 
last daughters of that foundation cow 
which we took home as a calf twenty-six 
years ago. Her milk is golden yellow 
in color and far more like cream than some 
of the so-caded cream which is served to me 
when I visit some of your large city hotels. 
Guernsey Bulls Prepotent 
One wonderful thing about the Guern¬ 
sey is the prepotency of the Guernsey 
bull. A good Guernsey bull readily trans¬ 
mits his desirable breed characteristics to 
the resulting progeny when used in a 
scrub herd. Pure-bred Guernsey bulls 
have increased the production of their 
daughters over the records of the cows to 
which they were bred by as much as 186 
per cent. 
A grade Guernsey cow in Wisconsin last 
year produced 17,555 pounds of milk con¬ 
taining 887 pounds of butterfat. This 
cow’s owner was an ordinary so-called 
“dirt farmer.” He sold his butterfat for 
over 50 cents per pound, receiving nearly 
$450 from this cow for a year’s work. 
Good profits received by owners of both 
purebreds and grades are making this breed 
very popular. 
Last year the average price received 
for purebred Guernseys at public auction 
was $353. In the first six months of 1924, 
15 per cent, more cattle have been sold in 
the Guernsey breed, but in spite of this 
increased supply, the average price was 
$368. Many farmers are adopting the 
slogan we did—“Buy one, raise a herd.” 
One of the principal reasons for this 
demand for Guernsey cattle lies in the 
demand of the public for Guernsey milk. 
When once the public learns about Guern¬ 
sey milk in a city the demand increases 
rapidly. Cleveland is selling over 4,000 
quarts daily. Rochester has just started 
the sale of Guernsey milk and already 
fully 1,000 quarts are being sold daily. 
There are about 14,000 farmers in the 
United States breeding Guernseys. There 
are between 80,000 and 100,000 living 
Guernsey animals. The business of keep¬ 
ing the records of such a big and growing 
industry is in the hands of the American 
Guernsey Cattle Club at Peterboro, 
N. H. This organization is constantly 
in touch with Guernsey breeders all over 
the country. It also serves as an informa¬ 
tion bureau for the breed. Why don’t you 
write them to-night for information about 
Guernseys, and Guernsey milk? 
The Guernsey cow, with the help of the 
American Guernsey Cattle Club, our 
State, county and local Guernsey clubs, 
is helping to make dairying more profit¬ 
able. Buy some Guernsey milk to¬ 
morrow and you will agree with me that 
the Guernsey breed has a great future. 
“Marguerite” Led the State 
W. TAILBY, State Supervisor of 
• Dairy Improvement Associations, 
shows in his latest report that F. H. Thom¬ 
son and son of Holland Patent, Oneida 
County, New York, have three of the 
five cows highest in butterfat in the 
whole State for the month of June, two 
of them taking first two places. “Mar¬ 
guerite” led the list with 86.5 pounds of 
fat for the month. “Jessie” produced 
84.9 pounds. Mr. Lee Bales of Cayuta, 
Schuyler County, took third place in the 
list with Lady Colantha Queen de Kol, 
who made 79.2 pounds of butter in the 
month, and W. W. Fortune of Essex 
County won the next place with “Gold 
Dust,” who produced 79 pounds. 
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Corn Gluten Meal Gluten Feed 
600 lbs. Bran 500 lbs. Bran 
100 lbs. Oilmeal 100 lbs. Oilmeal 
1000 lbs. (25% Protein) 1000 lbs.(20.6% Protein) 
Feed No. 1 it your roughage is timothy or mixed 
hay; No. 2 if you have much clover or alfalfa. Feed 
a pound of either ration to 3 lbs. of milk if your 
cows are Jerseys or Guernseys; a pound to 4 lbs. 
of milk if Holsteins or Ayrshires. 
Each ration is productive, economical, easy to mix, 
safe to feed and palatable. Each will give you as much 
milk for less feed cost. You can prove it by keep¬ 
ing records of feed consumed and milk produced. 
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SHUGAH VALLEY FARM, Claremont, N. H. 
GUERNSEYS 
are long lived. We can show you 
a Guernsey cow that is 19 years 
old, has 18 registered calves—• 
and is still delivering the goods. 
Ask (or 
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Box AA-102, PETERBORO, N. H. 
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250 head of fresh cows and close springers to select 
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Telephone 1476 
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Special Offer w f are g ffe r in ? choice of two bull 
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