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EXPERIMEXT1L FARMS 



4 GEORGE V., A. 19t4 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION, CAP ROUGE, P.Q.. 



REPORT OF. THE SUPERINTENDENT— GUS. A. LANGELIER. 



DAIRY CATTLE. 



Although this herd is not yet two years old, there are now at the Station, 1 bull, 

 9 cows, 5 heifers, registered French Canadians ; also ten cows, grades of the same 

 breed, and four heifers from the grades and sired by a pure-bred bull. 



The following table gives details as to milk production of the cows and heifers 

 which had finished a lactation period when this report was made. 



Milk Records. 



It will be seen that fourteen mature cows, one three-year-old and one two-year- 

 old heifer, milked during 4,921 days, and gave during that time, 83,314 pounds of 

 milk containing 3,671.17 pounds of butter fat, or 16.93 pounds of milk per day test- 

 ing 4-41. The average weight of these cattle was 952 pounds. The average produc- 

 tion was 5,207 pounds of milk containing 229-45 pounds of butter fat. It is inter- 

 esting to note that only six cows went over this, and if the rest of the sixteen had 

 averaged the same, viz., 7,003 pounds of milk containing 296-10 pounds of butter fat, 

 the total production would have been 112,043 pounds of milk instead of 83,314 and 

 4,737-60 pounds of butter fat instead of 3,671-17, or a difference of 28,734 pound- of 



