. The Guernsey breed. Guernsey cattle. 100 The Guernsey Breed As early at least as 1883 an appendix to the General Herd Book was added for Alderney-bred cattle, and this was con- tinued to as late as 1893. A total of 40 cows were entered, but nearly all of these were cows that had been taken to Guernsey. The Herd Book of the Royal Guernsey Agricul- tural Society recognized the Alderney-bred cows at once and placed them in their registry on an equal footing with the others, No. 100 being an Alderney-bred cow. Large numbers of cows have been taken from Alderney to Guernsey every year since there
. The Guernsey breed. Guernsey cattle. 100 The Guernsey Breed As early at least as 1883 an appendix to the General Herd Book was added for Alderney-bred cattle, and this was con- tinued to as late as 1893. A total of 40 cows were entered, but nearly all of these were cows that had been taken to Guernsey. The Herd Book of the Royal Guernsey Agricul- tural Society recognized the Alderney-bred cows at once and placed them in their registry on an equal footing with the others, No. 100 being an Alderney-bred cow. Large numbers of cows have been taken from Alderney to Guernsey every year since there began to be an export demand for cattle from (juernse}-. It is impossible to say just how many of the cattle entered in the island Herd Book are Alderney-bred. because many of the foundation stock animals were entered without. Raymond's Pearl King J5t>U. 1'. S., King's Cup, 1912; and dam. Princess May of the HungTjets I'V 7574, P. S. Imported by W. W. Marsh, of Iowa, and sold to C. S. Rasmussen, of California. the name of the breeder, and some of them, 1 happen to know, were Aldernev-brcd. While I find no written evidence, it is clear that Aklcrney-bred cattle were in the beginning admit- ted, whether inadvertently or not, to the registry of the Am- erican Guernsey Cattle Club. These cattle were first taken to Guernsey or to England and then brought to this country. Many years ago the breeders of Alderney started a herd book of their own, but no volume was ever published. Copy for the first volume was sent to the printers, but shortly after the printer died and the copy was lost. This work was taken up again in 1907, and in 1908 Volume I of the "Royal Alder- ney Agricultural Society Herd Book" was published. In 1909 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,
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