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whether the mate belonged to a milking or a beef-producing 

 variety. 



At St Louis World's Fair test in 1904, among the first 

 15 cows placed according to butter production, the Dutch 

 occupied the first, seventh, twelfth, and fifteenth places, and 

 the Jersey was the one other breed represented (p. 227). 

 It was stated that the best Dutch cow "secreted about 2f 

 Ibs. of milk per hour day and night, or a little more than 

 a quart, estimated at 2\ Ibs. The butter-fat, 282.601 Ibs., and 

 other solids not fat, 620.534 Ibs., made a grand total of 903 

 Ibs. of digestible solids in 120 days." This is at the rate of 

 7^ Ibs. per day of twenty-four hours. " The same cow cost 

 7, 6s. to feed, or about 365. per month. Against this we 

 place 200 gallons of milk, which *at is. a gallon would be 

 io\ or at i6d., the retailer's price, .13, 6s. 8d. The cost 

 of the milk for food is only nine-tenths of a halfpenny 

 per quart. The quantity of food consumed was 10,347 

 Ibs., of which 2652 Ibs. was of a concentrated and costly 

 character; but upon it she also gained 54 Ibs. in weight" 

 (/. Long). John Speir records the yield of a Dutch cow at 

 Marsum at 1865 gallons of milk in 329 days, or 5.66 gallons 

 daily, and another at 615 Ibs. of butter in 317 days. 



There is a Dutch Belted Cattle Association in the 

 United States, and the scale of points which has been 

 adopted for the breed is recorded with those of ten other 

 milking breeds in Circular No. 48 of the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry at Washington. 







