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Journal of AyncuUiire. 



[10 Sept., 1917. 



There is one fact in connexion with tliese tests upon which too much 

 .stress cannot be laid — it is that the yields recorded are obtained under 

 perfectly normal conditions of every-day farming. No forcing 

 or attempting to put up fancy records at the expense of constitution is 

 indulged in, and at no time have the officers engaged in the collection 

 of samples and checking of weights found feeding of any other kind 

 than that which should be carried out on every dairy farm. In support 

 of this contention a study of the yields during the past five years will 

 show the general consistency which could not be maintained under any 

 'other circumstances. 



The Red Poll cow " Muria," of the Werribee Eesearch Farm, i; 

 again first on the list in order of merit, with a yield of 9,993 lbs. of 



Mercedes Noble Queen (imp.). Owner: Mr. C. D. Lloyd. 



^ Champion Cow, Season 1916-17. 



milk, yielding 542.5 lbs. of butter fat. This performance is highly 

 creditable, for she entered the year under the disadvantage of a pre- 

 mature calving. Whilst she attains this position she does not, how- 

 ever, win the prize for the champion cow of the year, for the rule that 

 prize-winners must calve again within fifteen months has not been 

 complied with. She did not calve for twenty-one days over the allotted 

 period. The position then of the champion for the year goes to the 

 next cow on the list — a Jersey, " Mercede's Noble Queen," imported 

 to ]^ew Zealand from Jersey, and purchased later in the Dominion by 

 Mr. C. D. Lloyd, her present owner. Subject to her proving in calf, 

 she gains the honour for the year with a standard of 8,298 lbs. of milk 

 — 6.17 per cent, test, giving 512 lbs. of butter fat. This cow was much 



