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of the executive committee owning animals competing in said tests 

 shall be barred from having any supervision of said test or tests. All 

 cows shall be wholly under the control of the owner so far as feed- 

 ing and general treatment are concerned. 



"5." All the expenses connected with the tests shall be paid by 

 the contestants except those incurred by carrying out the provisions 

 contained' in Rule 9. 



"6. Each year's test shall commence in November; the first test 

 commencing November 1, 1898. All animals competing shall be 

 named at least 30 days prior to the opening of each test. The results 

 of each test shall be reported to the annual meeting of the club, when 

 the prizes will be awarded. 



"7. At the end of each month every contestant shall report to 

 the office of the club upon blanks furnished them for such purpose by 

 said office: 



"a. A complete record of the weights of each milking. 



"b. An approximate statement of the amount and kind of food 

 given the animals, and as to the manner of stabling and care of 

 same, including the dates of service or when in heat and not served. 



"8. About the middle of each month samples shall be taken of 

 the night's and following morning's milk and sent to the agricultural 

 experiment station of the state in which the animal is located', or to 

 such place as may be directed or approved by the executive commit- 

 tee, these samples to be properly labeled with the date and amount 

 of each milking, the result of such tests to be reported by the tester 

 to the office of the club. 



"9. At such times as the executive committee supervising said 

 test or tests shall see fit, but at least twice during the year, they 

 shall send anyone whom they may deputize to visit the herds from 

 which animals are entered, to weigh and test the milk from cows 

 competing. 



"10. The results of each year's tests shall be computed in the 

 following manner: The weights of milk produced each month shall 

 be multiplied by the per cent of butterfat as shown by the official 

 test for that month, and the sum of the results thus obtained shall be 

 the year's record'." 



The work was started November 1, 1898, and the three 

 herds of Ellerslie Stock Farm, Rhinecliff, N. Y. ; Ezra Mich- 

 ener, Carversville, Pa.; and Geo. C. Hill & Son, Rosendale, 

 Wis., were entered; and James H. Bierne, of Oakfield, Wis., 

 also entered two single cows. A summary of the results of 

 the first year's test is as follows, the herd of Mr. Michener 

 being withdrawn during the year : 



Single Cows. 



