White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-01-28

rHE Washington State Guernsey
i Breeders Club held its annual
meeting in Parlor A Of the Olympic
Hotel, Seattle, recently. President
Leland ]. Clark of Bellevenue, pre-
sided. The morning session was
taken up with routine business-read-
ing of the minutes, officers reports,
and the introducing of new members.
The report of Secretary H. r. Tay-
lor, showed that in spite of the fact
that the activities of his Office had
been greatly lessened during the year
to what they had been in 1925, never
theless % new breeders had been
started with foundation herds; and
that during the year $40 letters had
been written on various subjects per-
tanning to the breed.
Mr.. Taylor called attention in his
report to the difficulty experienced in
getting sellers to deliver promptly to
purchasers the registration and trans
fer certificates of the cattle sold. He
urged the necessity of keeping all
registration up to date, and that when
a sale was made that the transfer
be promptly issued.
But 81 breeders paid dues into the
state treasury in 1925 as compared
with 100 the year before. During
1925 $4,000 worth of cattle were sold
through the secretary's office. but in
1926, owing to other business demand
ing his attention only about one-third
, of this amount was realized from
sales made.
Bulls sold during the year brought
an average of s166.S3, while seven
purebred COWS, all that were sold,
brought an average of $652.85; grade
COWS averaged Slabs, while those
with cow testing records averaged
$35 above this price. Grade heifer
calves from dams with cow testing
records averaged $40 above those
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President Clark in his address en-
phaslzed the Importance of COW test
ing association records, and as an il
lustrat1on of the benefit to be derived
from them, cited the record of a
Guernsey dairyman in Oregon, who
from a herd of 20 cows during the
past five years, had an average pro-
duction per cow exceeding $50 pounds
of fat. This herd, Mr.. Clark said,
had been continuously in a cow test
ing association since 1904. This
splendid average production was used
by Mr.. Clark to refute the claim by
a Washington dairyman, that he
doubted If there was a herd in the
Northwest that would average 400
pounds of butterfat per COW over a
span of five years.
Mr.. Clark dwelt particularly on the
Importance of Guernsey breeders to
capitalize on golden Guernsey milk,
calling attention to the marked sue
cess that P. H; Thomson of Cen
tralia is having in the marketing I'M
der the trade mark Of Golden Guern-
sey Milk" the product of his 26 COWS,
which was bringing him 1211a cents
a quart on a market that was only
paying 10 cents quart for the aver
age quality of milk delivered to re-
tail trade. Mr.. Thomson, he said,
was disposing of 300 quarts daily and
could not nearly fill the demand. He
has been but three years building up
his trade to it's present proportions.
Mr.. Clark stressed the Importance
of showing at fairs; paid rather a
poor compliment to some of our
judges; thought that the Guernsey
breeders should see to it that CON-
petent men be selected for this i'm
portant work.
Following his address, and pend
ing the arrival of the luncheon hour,