FENWICK MILK RECORDS 



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Similar societies are being formed in the Ayrshire dairy 

 counties in the south of Scotland. The following records got 

 by the Fen wick Society in 1905, testing every twenty-first 

 day, are recorded by John Speir, Newton, Glasgow, in the 

 Transactions of the Highland Society for 1906. The average 

 yield of milk in eighteen dairies, containing 443 cows 

 (including heifers two and three years old), was 875 gallons 

 of milk of 3 per cent, of fat in the lactation period, ranging, 

 as to individual cows, from about thirty-eight to nearly forty- 

 six weeks. 



The following figures give details of seven of the 

 heaviest milking cows in the Fenwick Milk Record Associa- 

 tion. 



The average yield of 10 per cent, of the heaviest and of 

 the lightest milking cows of each dairy, excluding heifers, 

 are given at the bottom of the above table. The results 

 indicate the possibility of a marked improvement in the 

 average milking power of the Ayrshire breed by a systematic 

 process of eliminating the worst and breeding from the best. 



The following are the milk records of the dairy of thirty 

 cows of A. M. Baird, Garclaugh, New Cumnock, a rough old- 

 pasture farm 800 feet above the sea, one of the places 

 included in the foregoing records by Speir, but extended 

 to the whole milking period of 1905, finishing on December 



