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Show PROFIT FROM GUERNSEY COW Most Satisfactory Results Shown by Records Limit of Production Not Yet Reached. More than three thousand yearly records of Guernsey cows have now been completed. These show an average av-erage milk yield of 8,541 pounds milk and 426 pounds butterfat. More than one-third of the cows tested were heifers with first calf, which makes the showing all the more creditable. Of this number 564 gave from 10,000 ' 1 ' h il ski- s 1 ' r A ; A Guernsey Calf. to 10,000 pounds milk and from 500 to 1,000 pounds butterfat. The .".5 cows highest on the list gave :m average of 1-1 ,597 pound.-! tniik, and "71 pounds butterfat with a Ust. of 3.2S per cent. This is over two pounds butterfat a day right, tlirougli the year and is a very satisfactory shov ing. Guernsey records show over pounds milk in one day and 2."l'il pounds in .'10 days. The limit of production pro-duction is not yet reached. |