. The Guernsey breed. Guernsey cattle. The Guernsey RREEn 269. Tessie—a grade Guernsey. Yearly record, l^ounds buttcrfat. Bessie of Birchwood 11 0 500 0 May 4 6 10,010 Sue 3 9 10,476 Maggie 3 6 9,287 Miss Busse 5 6 6,478 Elsie 5 5 5,509 312,4 There were 23 grade Guernseys in this competition and they gave an average of 10,073 pounrls milk, testing per cent fat, equal to 475 pounds fat for the year. This is more than double the a^'crage annual production of the cows of any state in the union, and may be taken as an indicati
. The Guernsey breed. Guernsey cattle. The Guernsey RREEn 269. Tessie—a grade Guernsey. Yearly record, l^ounds buttcrfat. Bessie of Birchwood 11 0 500 0 May 4 6 10,010 Sue 3 9 10,476 Maggie 3 6 9,287 Miss Busse 5 6 6,478 Elsie 5 5 5,509 312,4 There were 23 grade Guernseys in this competition and they gave an average of 10,073 pounrls milk, testing per cent fat, equal to 475 pounds fat for the year. This is more than double the a^'crage annual production of the cows of any state in the union, and may be taken as an indication of what may be expected from the use of a purebred Guernsey bull in a herd of grade or common cows. The largest record of the twenty-three was made by the half-blood cow Jerry, owned by A. N. Schmit, Appleton, Wis- consin. She was bred by Charles Breitrick of the same place, and was sired b}' King of Ellington 11096, a bull of Mr. Breitrick's own breeding. She was 10 years old at the time of the test. Her record for the year was as follows: 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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