. The Guernsey breed. Guernsey cattle. 110 The Guernsey Breed Nos. 1464 to 1485 and 1565 to 1568, that were notable, indeed, and bulls Nos. 644 and 645. Among these cows were Countess of Fernwood 1464, that made for Mr. Ledyard 14 pounds 12 ounces butter in seven days and that was the dam of the ad- vanced register bull Viscount 2177, she being out of the cow Fleurie du Terte 1136, G. H. B., that had a record of 14 pounds 10 ounces butter, Guernsey weight, on the island; also Gazelle of Fernwood 1467, the mother of Glenwood Girl 1693; Fern-. Fernwood Lily 1468- '.72 lbs. butter in seven days.
. The Guernsey breed. Guernsey cattle. 110 The Guernsey Breed Nos. 1464 to 1485 and 1565 to 1568, that were notable, indeed, and bulls Nos. 644 and 645. Among these cows were Countess of Fernwood 1464, that made for Mr. Ledyard 14 pounds 12 ounces butter in seven days and that was the dam of the ad- vanced register bull Viscount 2177, she being out of the cow Fleurie du Terte 1136, G. H. B., that had a record of 14 pounds 10 ounces butter, Guernsey weight, on the island; also Gazelle of Fernwood 1467, the mother of Glenwood Girl 1693; Fern-. Fernwood Lily 1468- '.72 lbs. butter in seven days. wood Lily 1468, the dam of two advanced register bulls, Lily's Bonny Boy 2676 and Fernwood Lily's Son 3931; Guernsey Gift 1483, a very high-class daughter of Presto 14, P. S., that milked over 40 pounds of milk with her first calf; and Bonnie Lassie of Fernwood 1485, the dam of the celebrated bull. Bonny Boy 1097. With these cattle i\lr. Ledyard also brought the cows Nos. 1506 to 1522 for Mr. Schenck, the most cele- brated of which was Vestall of Larchmont 1507, that made 18 pounds 12j/< ounces butter in seven days. In Februar)', 1881, S. C. Kent, of West Grove, Pa., landed his first importation of cattle at Philadelphia, and in the next four or five years, in connection with James James, of Les , Guernsey, and Mark Hughes, also of West Grove, imported o\er 1,000 head of Guernsey cattle and scattered them far and wide through auction sales. One of the most notable of his sales was the one held in May, 1884, at which 76 animals sold above the $200 mark, and Lady Emily Foley 2d 1700 sold for $1,900 to Flenry Palmer, a neighbor of Messrs. Digitized by Microsoft®. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hill, Charles Lewis, 1869-. Waterloo, Iowa. : F. L. Kimball Co.
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