1484 CATTLE 



Number of cows 



Cows skiving per annum 



10000 lbs of inilk 13 



8 000 " " " 56 



6000 " " " 155 



\ 000 " " " j[Qi 



Under 4000 lbs of milk 97 



Incomplete 54 



Butter tat average 



Evening milk 4.2 per cent 



Morning milk 3.6 per cent 



A milk recording Society may be of value to dairy farmers : 



i) B}' enabling them to eliminate unprofitable cows from their 

 herds. 



2) By providing a government certificate of milk yield, and in 

 this way enabling purchasers of cows (or young stock from the herd) to 

 place absolute confidence in the accuracy of the records given. 



3) By enabling the farmer to have samples of his milk taken and 

 tested at frequent intervals, so that he may know when it is in danger of 

 falling below the .standard. 



4) The account kept of the rations fed allows of a comparison be- 

 tween them and their cost in different herds and so enables farmers to jtidge 

 for themselves as to the cheapest feeding for milk production in the case of 

 their own stock. 



1 100 - The Dairy Side of the Ayrshire. — \mnslow, c. m., in Tin Field, voi. xxvi, No. 7, 



p. 388. New York, July 1916. 



The ever-increasing interest in blooded dairy stock is ver}^ largely due to 

 Advanced Registry Testing done by the four leading breeds. It has brought 

 the good cows to the front, eradicated the scrub cow when practised, and 

 has led to the investment of large sums of money in the dair}^ industry. 



Testing has given to the public a knowledge of the real value of high- 

 class dairy cows, and has revolutionised the whole dairy industry of the 

 United States. The Ayrshire breed has perhaps benefited more than all 

 the others. The long-held belief that the Ayrshire is a wonderful dairy 

 cow has been converted from a supposition to an absolute fact. The per- 

 fection of its conformation has never been questioned, but testing has 

 shown that this conformation is correlated with high production, that the 

 breed can produce a record better than 25 000 pounds of milk and i 000 lbs 

 of butter. 



Official milk records of four cows a full year taken in connection with 

 carefully kept feeding records made by the owners, are given in the follow- 

 ing tables. The method of feeding employed by the breeders not only 

 reveals the benefit gained by the cows, but also affords a valuable object 

 lesson to others having cows on test. 



