PAPERS OF GENERAL INTEREST 61 



HIGHEST SPEED OF GOLDSMITH MAID AT DIFFERENT AGES 



ONE MILE 



Eight years old 2:36 



Nine years old 2:30 



Ten years old 2 : 24% 



Eleven years old 2 : 221^ 



Twelve years old 2 : 19% 



Fourteen years old 2:17 



Fifteen years old 2:16% 



Sixteen years old ...2:16 



Seventeen years old 2 : 14 



TThen Goldsmith Maid trotted a mile in 2 :17 as a four- 

 teen-year-old she broke the -world's record, and thus 

 demonstrated that she had developed more trotting 

 power than ever existed in any previous horse. As a fif- 

 teen-year-old she broke the record again, and then onc« 

 more as a sixteen-year-old. As a seventeen-year-old she 

 broke the record four times in succession. By continu- 

 ally exercising the powers she had, she continued to gain 

 in trotting power from youth to old age, and made the 

 most striking gains in the evening of life. The powers 

 she developed in that way greatly exceeded anything 

 which ever existed in any ancestor. 



It is not often that horses are trained continuously for 

 so many years as were Flora Temple and Goldsmith 

 Maid, but for the pur|30se of showing that the results ob- 

 tained were not due to something peculiar in the inheri- 

 tance of those animals, note the fact that during 1917 

 more than one hundred trotters, ranging from ten to fif- 

 teen years of age, made faster records on the race tracks 

 of the United States than they ever made before. 



HOLSTEIN-FRIESLA.N MILK PRODUCTION 



se\t;n-day officiai, tests 



Pounds 

 of 

 Average Age. Milk 



Two years and two months 322.7 



Three years and two months 400.3 



Four years and two months 446.8 



Six years and six months 450.7 



Seven years and seven months 472.6 



Eight years and three months 499.8 



Nine years and seven months 564. S 



