OUR PURE-BRED GUERNSEY HERD 
Since 1920, starting with five pure-bred Guernsey 
heifers and a bull of Langwater and Golden Secret 
breeding, our herd has increased to over 100 head of 
animals of which more than forty are now being 
milked. At least twice this number have been sold 
off and our modern dairy barn and equipment have 
been purchased from the profits of the sale of these 
animals. The purpose behind the development of our 
pure-bred herd was to demonstrate what could be 
done under ordinary farm conditions and what any 
farmer of reasonable means could duplicate with a 
small outlay of money. 
The standard for our herd, which we set some 
years ago, that a cow with her first calf must make 
or be capable of making 10,000 pounds milk and 500 
pounds of_ butter fat, has been strictly adhered to. 
Two National class leaders and 16 state class 
championships in Advanced Register testing work 
have been developed in the herd. 
Our Guernsey, Violet of Orchard Springs, com¬ 
pleted a record for us which has never been equalled 
in the South. As a mature cow, she produced 16,939.6 
pounds of milk and 961.2 pounds of butter fat. 
Her double granddaughter, Double Silver, has just 
completed her first record as a 2*4 year old with 
11,666.9 pounds of milk and 664.3 pounds of butter 
fat. On the basis of this splendid record, we received 
a flattering offer for this cow which we turned down 
in order to retain her in our herd for breeding. 
One of our herd sires, Coker’s Silver Ophir, a 
grandson of Violet, and son of Amelia’s Rose Gold 
of Ophir (which we sold to a breeder in the East 
for the highest price received for any bull shipped 
from this State), has five daughters which at an 
average age of 2Vz years have completed official 
test with records averaging 607.8 pounds of butter 
fat. These records are 28.7% above the average of 
the Guernsey breed for the same classes. 
Two of Ophir’s daughters, the twins Clyburn 
Kate and Clyburn Duplicate whose picture is shown 
at the bottom of the page, finished their tests only 
t4o of one pound of butter fat apart. Kate produced 
625.1 lbs. and Duplicate, 625.5 lbs. 
Our present herd is descended from such distin¬ 
guished ancestry of the May Rose breeding. 
We have for sale a limited number of fine animals, 
both male and female, at reasonable prices. We 
invite you to visit us and see our herd. 
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