616 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The following is the style for such sheet: 



Milk Record for Month of 



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The foregoing record can be extended to take in as many cows as 

 desired. It will be found, however, that when more than about fifteen 

 are provided for on one sheet it becomes rather unwieldy in size. It 

 will, of course, be recognized that instead of having the cows numbered 

 the name of the animal can be entered at the head of the column. It 

 is quite necessary in keeping any system of records that the milk be 

 weighed both morning and evening, as on the great majority of farms 

 the periods between milking are very unequal, thus making the quan- 

 tities given at the two milkings unequal. Even where the periods are 

 equal the cow will seldom give exactly the same quantity at the two 

 milkings. Were the milk to be weighed but once a day there would be 

 a tendency to weigh at the milking that the largest quantity was given. 

 Farmers are prone to cheat themselves in this way, and this is a case 

 where cheating is likely to result in an actual loss of dollars. 



The sample monthly record given would require a new sheet every 

 month, and some provision should be made for copying and preserving 

 the totals, so that in case the daily record was lost the figures of the 



