. Productive dairying . Dairying. 68 GUERNSEYS Dairy Characteristics.—The Guernsey is outstandingly a dairy breed. While some members of them carry considerable flesh and fatten at a sufiiciently good rate, they, in common with other dairy breeds, do not place the gain either in the place or in the condition to be most highly valuable. Their beef-making qualities are entirely secondary. As a whole, the cows of this breed yield rather more milk than the Jerseys, but it does not. Fig. 25.—Dairy Maid of Pmehurst, Guernsey cow that, at four years of age, produced in one year 17, pounds of mi
. Productive dairying . Dairying. 68 GUERNSEYS Dairy Characteristics.—The Guernsey is outstandingly a dairy breed. While some members of them carry considerable flesh and fatten at a sufiiciently good rate, they, in common with other dairy breeds, do not place the gain either in the place or in the condition to be most highly valuable. Their beef-making qualities are entirely secondary. As a whole, the cows of this breed yield rather more milk than the Jerseys, but it does not. Fig. 25.—Dairy Maid of Pmehurst, Guernsey cow that, at four years of age, produced in one year 17, pounds of milk which contained pounds butter fat. Note deep body, well-balanced udder and large milk vein, also the evidence of good care. Owned by W. W. Marsh, Waterloo, Iowa. test quite as high. A yield of 6000 to 9000 pounds of milk per year is not at all unusual, while the percentage of fat ranges close to five. Comparing their yield with the Holstein, they give much less milk, but it tests more. In respect to their miUi- ing habits as in other points the Guernsey occupies a position between the Jersey and the Holstein, but rather more near the Jersey. One value of Guernsey milk is its exceedingly vellow color. In this respect, it outclasses all other breeds. JSTot in- frequently butter made from Guernseys on full gi-ass pasture is '. 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 Washburn, Robert Mann, 1874-. Philadelphia ; London : J. B. Lippincott Company
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