State Dairy Association. 391 



WHAT ROSE HATH WROUGHT. j 



Fifty-Seven Weeks of Advanced Registry Record. 



Twelve pounds of butter fat for a single week is the produc- 

 tion required for admission to the Holstein-Friesian advanced 

 register. Twenty different weeks in her third lactation period, 

 Rose made more than 12 pounds per week. Three times in this 

 period she made 17f pounds of butter fat per week. For five suc- 

 cessive weeks, six months after calving, her average was 13 pounds 

 of butter fat per week. In her fourth lactation period, there were 

 16 weeks during each of which Rose made more than 12 pounds of 

 butter fat; and in her fifth lactation period, 21 weeks. 



Total production for 12 years, 87,102.3 pounds of milk — 43!/2 

 tons — 10,248 gallons — 1,281 cans of 8 gallons each — 106 wagon 

 loads of 12 cans each; allowing three rods for a team, this would 

 make a procession one mile long — 6 car loads, making a good milk 

 train. 



Butter for 12 years, 4,318.36 pounds, worth at present prices 

 (25 cents per pound), $1,079.59. 



Skim milk for 12 years, 72,585 pounds, worth at 15 cents per 

 100 pounds, $108.88. 



Total receipts for 12 years (not reckoning calves nor manure) , 

 $1,188.47, or $99.04 per year. 



Just think what the receipts of a dairyman would be whose 

 herd consisted of 25 cows of this kind — $2,500 per year, not count- 

 ing calves and manure. 



Rose was bought for $50 when 4 years old. She has had only 

 ordinary treatment, no better than she would receive on a good 

 dairy farm. She has not been pampered or fed to produce the 

 utmost she was capable of making. 



Remarkable as is the performance of this grade cow, she is 

 not heralded as standing apart in unapproachable splendor, but as 

 a great leader of the thousands of money-making cows in our dairy 

 herds. 



In striking contrast to Rose and the class of cows she repre- 

 sents, is Queen. With equally good feed and care, Queen's average 

 production for seven years was only 4,414 pounds of milk and 156 

 pounds of butter fat. 



Cows No. 1 and No. 3 were purchased from a large herd and 

 taken to the Uniyersity, They were fed and cared for in the same 



