DAIRY COWS. 



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RESULTS OF "COW DEMONSTRATION" AT LOUISIANA 

 PURCHASE EXPOSITION, ST. LOUIS, 1904. (Fakrington.) 



HIGHEST RECORD FOR YIELD OF BUTTER-FAT 



During Twenty-four Hour.s 3Iade by any Cow in i». 



Public Test. 



At a Fair. 

 Brienz, Brown-Swiss, 11 years old, 

 weighing 1395 lbs. 

 Average daily yield of 



milk 81.7 lbs. 



Average daily yield of 



fat 3.1 1 " 



Average per cent of fat 



in day's milk 3.81 



(American Dairy Show, Chicago, 

 1891 , 3-day test.) 



At Home. 

 DeKol Witkop Wayne 2d, No. 



58,709, H.-F. H. B. 

 Yield of milk 70.7 lbs. 



" " fat 4.77 " 



Average per cent of 



fat in day's milk . . 6.75 

 (March 1-2, iqoS. 7-day test, 

 Feb. 29-Mar. 7, 1908, conducted 

 by the Cornell Univ. (N. Y.) 

 Experiment Station; total yield 

 for week, 484.5 lbs. milk and 

 23.095 lbs. fat; average per 

 cent of fat in milk, 4.77); test 

 commenced 6 days from last 

 calving; age of cow, 6 years 

 10 months). 



