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Journal of Agriculture, Victoria. [10 Sept., 1918. 



The , Princess family in this herd provides a good illustration of the 

 transmission of butter-fat producing qualities. Princess this season 

 yielded almost 395 lbs., and 414 lbs. last year. Her daughter, 

 Princess Defiance, gave 322 lbs. in 1917 on second calf, and 415 lbs. 

 for 1918, Infanta, a full sister to Princess Defiance, made 281 lbs. 

 fat as a two-year-old, and Banksia, also a two-year-old and daughter 

 of Princess Defiance, yielded 308 lbs., while Czarina, full sister to both 

 Princess Defiance and Infanta, produced 383 lbs. This transmission 

 of power to produce large quantities of milk and butter fat is very 

 strikingly illustrated in the detailed family tree of the Jessie family, 

 so largely represented in Mr. Woodmason's Melrose herd. Details of 

 other families will be given at a later date. Mr. Read's herd, which 



" Mabel's Chief." (imp.). — The sire of many good heifers. 



gains second prize this year, has shown an average increase in butter- 

 fat production of 77 lbs. per cow during the six years they have com- 

 peted in the Standard Herd Test. 



"What is to prevent similar methods being applied to the dairy 

 herds of this State generally? Only the easy-going apathy of the 

 farmers themselves. What would be the result in the dairy industry 

 of the State if similar methods were generally adopted? Suppose we 

 could obtain an improvement of 40 pounds per head from each 

 of the 600,000 dairy cows in Victoria. At Is. per lb. it would give 

 the dairy farmers an increased return of £1,200,000 per annum, to 

 say nothing of the increased profit from calves and skim milk. 



During the year Mr. C. Gordon Lyon's Velveteen II. gave 10,434 lbs. 

 of milk, 487 lbs. of fat, and 27 lbs. of milk on the last day of the test. 

 Last year her yield of butter-fat was 341 lbs. 



