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pounds ; the latter gave 3,i82>^ pounds in thirty days, the highest 

 day's yield being 113 1-16 pounds. 



Seventy-seven cows have been received to advanced registry 

 that have produced from 15,000 to 30,000 pounds in periods of 

 ten months to one year. These official records place the Hol- 

 steins in a class by themselves as milk producers. 



Yes, but you say that we sell cream or make butter and we 

 have been told that Holsteins are useless as butter makers ; let us 

 see. Realizing the public demand for reliable butter tests as a 

 guide for determining the productive capacity of the dairy cow, 

 and appreciating the importance of furnishing reliable data as to 

 the merits of the Holstein-Friesian as a butter producer, the Hol- 

 stein-Friesian Association of America in 1894 offered in prizes 

 the sum of $1,000 for cows and heifers of this breed making offi- 

 cially authenticated butter records, the competing animals in all 

 cases to be tested for one week at the homes of the owners and 

 under the personal supervision of representatives of the experi- 

 ment stations in the different states where the cows were tested 

 for competition. These tests are all made with that friend of 

 the dairv farmer and enemv of the inferior cow — the Bab- 

 cock test. This offers a clear and comprehensive method to the 

 dairy farmer from which he can draw accurate conclusions as to 

 the merits of the breed from the standpoint of practical dairy 

 work. This prize test brought out officially authenticated butter 

 tests of 35 cows and heifers. Of this number, 10 were two-year 

 old heifers, and their yield ranged from y% to ii-i pounds butter 

 fat per week. Ten were heifers three and four years old, the 

 remaining fifteen were of maturer age, making a total of 25 over 

 three years of age. Their total seven days' yield of milk was 

 1,124,266 pounds, or a daily average of 64.2 pounds of milk per 

 cow ; their total week's yield of butter fat was 397.5 pounds, an 

 average of 15.9 pounds of fat per cow per week. Ten animals 

 on the list made yields of more than 17 pounds of butter fat per 

 week, and four of the number produced over 20.1 pounds, and 

 one made the enormous yield of 21.26 pounds of fat for the 

 seven days. 



The Holstein-Friesian Association, assisted by the different 

 experiment stations, has continued this method of conducting 

 weekly official tests up to the present time, and the most flatter- 



