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At a recent State fair in Iowa, the following test of Jersey cows, from the herd of Mr. 

 Charles J. Reed, of &quot;Meadow Brook Farm,&quot; Fairfield, was made by a committee appointed 

 by the Board of Directors for this purpose. Being kept chiefly as a breeding herd, no 

 attempt had been made to push the cows to a high butter yield by gram food. They were 

 pastured during the entire season on wild grass, white clover, and blue grass, until about 

 two weeks before the fair, when they were put upon a second growth of timothy and clover, and 

 five days previous to shipping were fed six quarts per day of ground oats. They were then 

 shipped 125 miles by rail. The cows tested were: Rose of Hillside (3866), and Belle of 

 Indiana (3867); these were milked in the presence of the committee, and the milk weighed 

 by it and delivered to Col. R. M. Littler, secretary of the National Butter and Cheese Asso 

 ciation, appointed to conduct the test. These cows were each five months in calf, and the 

 milk weighed thirty-five pounds. This was drawn the first twenty-four hours after their 

 twenty-four hours shipment. The milk was given into Col. Littler s possession at 9.12 A. M., 

 strained into a deep can 8 inches in diameter and placed in a refrigerator at a temperature 

 of 42. As soon as the temperature of the milk was sufficiently reduced, the whole milk 

 was churned sweet, and at 11.20 A. M. (two hours and eight minutes from the time of milk 

 ing), the butter was churned, worked, and printed ready for the table. 



The product was three pounds of butter, being at the rate of nine pounds per 1 00 

 pounds of milk, and 1 pounds per day per cow, notwithstanding their long shipment and a 

 fast of twenty-four hours during the journey. That all the butter was not obtained from 

 the sweet milk thus churned was shown by cream rising on the butter-milk. 



The best and fairest tests are those where the animal has not been forced by excessive 

 feeding of certain kinds of food merely for the purpose of producing a high record. The 

 health and breeding powers of valuable animals are frequently injured by this means. 



Alderneys. The Alderney breed is so nearly allied to that of the Jersey as to require 

 no separate description. They are generally regarded as identical, although most of the 

 Channel Island importations to this country are from the Island of Jersey and Guernsey, 

 there having been in reality but few animals ever brought to this country from Alderney. 

 See JERSEYS. 



