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in 120 days run from 3.70G.5 pounds milk to 5,207.4 pounds milk, having 

 a butter fat content running trom 143.6 pounds to 208.5 pounds and from 

 337.4 pounds other solids to 446.4 pounds other solids. Their growth in 

 114 days of the 120 days was 41 pounds to 143 pounds. The average 

 amount of milk ^iroduced by the twenty cows during the 120 days was 

 4,421.6 pounds milk showing an average butter fat content of 165.3 

 pounds and an aveiage of 382.7 pounds other solids, and an average 

 growth for the 114 days of 105.3 pounds. 



■ "Stopping for a moment to consider comparatively this record of 

 5,207.4 pounds milk showing 208.5 pounds butter fat made by a short- 

 horn cow in this demonstration and her farther record of 446.4 pounds 

 other solids and the farther fact that in 114 days she grew 139 pounds 

 (which is another name for stored energy for future work) and the 

 adiitional fact that this cow produced her last calf February 26 and was 

 again bred April 22, we may gather some information as to whether 

 this cow is comparatively a good dairy cow or not, without reference 

 to her beefing qualities. It should be remembered also that this cow 

 was reared in Michigan and was never out of sight of her birthplace 

 until the last week of April of this year. In the great Columbian Dairy 

 Test, h(.'ld eleven years ago and which will never be wiped off the pages 

 of history as a mile stone along the dairy trail of this and. all other coun- 

 tries, V ut three cows (all of them Jerseys) equaled the dairy record of 

 the short-iorn cow we are now considering. Climatic conditions and 

 hm n environments and all other surroundings were up and away much 

 better at Chicago than at St. Louis. These three Jersey cows were all 

 champions in the different tests at Chicago. Brown Bessie produced her 

 last calf April 21, Merry Maiden produced her last calf April 15, and Ida 

 Marigold produced her last calf April 29. None of these cows were 

 again bred. Their 120 days' trial commenced two weeks earlier than the 

 St. Louis demonstration and by the same token closed two weeks earlier, 

 showing so much less period of lactation than the short-horn. Brown 

 Bessie gave 4,768.6 pounds milk, showing a butter fat content of 237.3 

 pounds and 436.9 pounds other solids and grew 88 pounds. Merry Maiden 

 gave 4,006.2 pounds milk, showing a butter fat content of 219.5 pounds 

 and 372.0 pounds other solids and grew 39 pounds. Ida Marigold gave 

 4,434.1 pounds milk, showing a butter fat content of 212.9 pounds and 

 401.9 pounds other solids, and grew 69 pounds. From all of the above 

 we must conclude that the short-horn cow we have been considering, 16th 

 Belle of Trowbridge (Vol. 43, page 637 A. H. B.) must certainly take 

 high rank as a dairy cow and that at least four out of five of all of her 

 associates by their performance in this demonstration have proved them- 

 selves dairy cows." 



The American Association board was not in any way to blame for 

 failure to have this report made. Colonel Hinds gives this report In the 

 November number of the Breeders' Gazette, after having prepared bis 



