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Now, I want to speak very briefly about the dairy side of the 

 Shorthorn. I have noted a few facts from a few Shorthorn cows 

 where an accurate record has been kept. It is a very easy thing 

 for a man to say, "I have a Shorthorn cow at home that will pro- 

 duce more than a cow which has been tested, and her record set 

 forth," but when he comes to milking that cow and weighing her 

 milk, then he may be mistaken. When a man says "My cow gives 

 so many gallons," and he milks in a large pail, and does not count 

 any off for an inch and a half of foam on top, he may be consider- 

 ably mistaken. In these facts I will give you they are based, in 

 nearly every instance, on actual weight : 



Laura I won first prize in the Shorthorn Special International 

 of 1906, giving a total amount, in 1906, of 9,052 V^ pounds of milk. 

 She gave an average for seven months of 40 pounds a day. That's 

 a pretty good record for a dairy cow. 



Jenny Lee gave, in 1906, 10,484 pounds of milk. She gave an 

 average for five years of 9,243^ pounds. 



Henrietta Clay gave 8,665 pounds in a year, and. her daughter, 

 Henrietta Clay the II, gave 10,286 pounds, when three years old; 

 another daughter, Redbird, gave 11,454 pounds in a year. Now, 

 ten cows in this same herd gave an average of over 10,000 pounds 

 of milk in a year; and the entire herd of cows (mature cows, above 

 six years of age) gave an average of 9,107 pounds of milk. That 

 is a herd owned in New York, and probably a good many of you 

 could name the owner without my giving the name. 



Mamie Clay the II in one year gave 13,232 pounds of milk, and 

 69 pounds of milk in a single day. 



Kittie Clay the IV, the first-prize cow in the 30-day test at 

 the Columbian, gave in 30 days 5,092 pounds of milk, an average 

 of 53 2-3 pounds a day; and in a 31-day test in 1895, she gave 8,038 

 pounds, an average of 59*4 pounds a day; and in one day she gave 

 65 pounds. 



Let me give one or two more instances, verified by actual meas- 

 urement. The former Secretary of our Association, Mr. J. H. Pick- 

 erell, gives this record : Cape Louis, a cow he owned in his herd, 

 died of milk fever at six years of age. She had raised four calves. 

 One of those calves, when two years old, sold for over $3,000, and 

 the record, without actually weighing the milk, is that that cow 

 gave a great deal more milk than her calf would take when the calf 

 was five or six months old. That's a remarkable record. You may 

 say it is not accurate, and that we don't know what she would give, 



