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yields of all the cows, and to dry off and- sell foi* beef those that did not yield 6,000 

 pounds of milk and 300 pounds of Initter in twelve months, and replace them by 

 other purchases. 



In the following table is recorded the number by which the cow is known, her 

 purchase price, yield of milk, of fat, the estimated amount of butter, the number of 

 weeks she was milked, the date of the birth of her calf, if it occurred after October 

 1, 1897, and finally her present value, as determined by tihe separate estimates of 

 competent cattle men: 



*Sold. 



+ Slaughtered- 



Number 102 was severely injured in the udder soon after purcha.se. She re- 

 covered very slowly but was finally fattened and sold for beef. Number 111 was 

 condemned as tuberculous in April. 1S9S, and slaughtered. Numbers 99 and 100 

 were fattened and sold toward the close of their milking period because they were 

 deemed too old to keep longer. Numbers 86, 91 and 94 gave milk through the 

 entire year. Numbers 39, 87, 88, 90, 94, 96, 98, 101, 103, i04, 106, 107, 108, were. 



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