STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATION. 



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Table 2, giving average record of the cow producing the most butter 

 fat of all the cows tested, for two years and average record of the cow 

 producing the least butter fat: 



Name of Cow. Herd. 



Pet, best cow N. 



Joe's Bride F. 



Pet of herd N gave for the two years an average of 2,630 pound more 

 milk, 232 pounds more butter fat and 270 pounds more butter per year 

 than Joe's Bride, of herd F. 



Pet, of herd N, has the highest average record of all the cows tested, 

 and Joe's Bride, of herd F, the lowest. 



Table 3, giving the total amount of milk and butter fat produced by 

 the ten herds in the first and the second year, also the total number of 

 cows : 



Year's Work. 



First 160 



Second 145 



There were 15 more cows in the first than in the second year, but the 

 145 animals produced 22,498 pounds more milk and 1,101 pounds more 

 butter fat in the second year than the 160 cows gave in the first. 



Table 4, giving the average yearly production for all the herds that 

 have been tested for two years: 



Milk, 

 Year's Work. Pounds. 



First 4,944 



Second 5,611 



The percentage of increase in the second year per cow of the ten 

 herds tested was 13.7 per cent, of milk and 13.9 per cent, of butter fat. 

 In other Avords, the average increase per cow was 667 pounds of milk, 28 

 pounds of butter fat, and 32 pounds of butter. 



Mr. Woollen: It seems to me that this would be a very gi-eat loss if 

 we should allow this paper to go by witiiout any discussion, for there are 

 a great many people here who have had practical experience, and who are 

 educated, and it has been my experience that the discussions ofttimes pro- 

 duce more good and a great deal more instruction can be gotten from 

 them than from the papers themselves. I do not mean to reflect upon the 

 papers this afternoon, l)ecause they are high class, and for this reason 

 they should bring out discussion. Of course we must have these papers in 

 order to have the discussion, but, after all, there is a practical side to 

 farming. I am a dairyman only by proxy, but I enjoy seeing two or three 



