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second when the beef quaHties of the cow and calf and dairy performance 

 were all considered. 



The herd bull Sarcastic Lad was bred by the Michigan Agricultural 

 College and had proved himself one of the best sires in the United States. 

 He is a typical dairy bull, weighing 2,200 pounds, has the active, aggres- 

 sive dairy temperament, walks as if he owned the earth, but is easily 

 handled. He was entered in the show ring where he was awarded the 

 Grand Championship prize against very warm competition. He is very 

 deep-bodied, has large capacious barrel, excellent handling qualities, long, 

 level rump and is cut up in the twist very high. His shoulders are mas- 

 culine, his neck well-crested, withers thin and brisket rather low. His 

 front legs are set rather too close together. 



Taking the results as a whole, they were very satisfactory. When 

 the conditions which the three breeders had to meet were considered and 

 just honor is due Missouri for producing the phenomenal cow Shady 

 Brook Gerben. 



THE SUPERVISION OF THE COW DEMONSTRATION AND 

 SOME OF THE LSSONS TAUGHT. 



(C. H. Hechler, Student of the Agricultural College.) 



It may be of interest to those who have been reading the records 

 made during the dairy demonstration at the Louisiana Purchase Ex- 

 position to know how the observations were made and how the records 

 were kept. Upon the accuracy of these must, of course, depend the value 

 of the results obtained. This was a phase of the demonstration that 

 could not be delegated to the representatives of the different breeds. 

 The work had to be done by someone who had nothing to lose or win by 

 the outcome of the test. The management of the Exposition, upon the 

 request of the various breed associations represented, placed the matter 

 of supervision under a committee of the Association of Experiment Sta- 

 tions. Of this committee Prof. E. H. Farrington, Dairy Husbandman of 

 the Wisconsin Experiment Station, personally managed the supervision. 



The detail work was done by a force of from nine to twelve men, 

 instructors and advanced students from various agricultural colleges. 

 Among these were four from the Missouri Agricultural College. 



As visitors at the Exposition will remember, the cows were quartered 

 in three octagonal barns, the Shorthorns and Jerseys each occupying a 

 barn, while the Holsteins and Brown Swiss were in the same barn. In 

 each of these barns were stationed two of the supervising force, knowii 



