Public Tests of Fiire-bred Dairy Cows. 



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Only the briefest summary of the more important results can 

 be here presented, but these should prove useful to dairy students 

 "^nd others, the accuracy of the figures being unquestioned. 



^84. Prices charged for feed. — The prices charged for feed con- 

 sumed by the cows during the contest, fixed by the chief of the 

 Agricultural Division of the Exposition, appear in the table 

 below: 



Prices charged per ton for feed consumed by cows - 

 Contest. 



Columbian Dairy 



Timothy hay (mixed). 



Com meal 



Cotton-seed meal 



Linseed meal 



Oats 



Middlings 



Bran 



Clover hay 



6ilage 



Grano-gluten 



Cream-gluten 



Corn hearts 



Green clover. 



Swale grasfl 



New hay 



Carrots 



Cheese 

 test. 



$11 50 

 22 00 

 26 00 



22 00 



23 00 



13 00 



12 50 

 11 00 



4 00 



14 75 

 17 50 



13 50 



Ninety- 

 day 

 butter 



test. 



$11 50 

 22 00 

 26 00 



22 00 



23 00 

 13 00 

 12 50 



2 50 

 14 75 

 17 50 

 13 50 

 8 00 

 1 00 

 10 00 



Thirty 

 day 



butter 

 test. 



$22 00 

 26 00 



22 00 



23 00 

 13 00 

 12 50 



1 50 

 14 75 



13 50 



10 00 

 8 00 



Heifer 

 butter 

 test 



$22 00 

 26 00 



22 00 



23 00 

 13 00 

 12 50 



1 60 



13 50 

 10 "66 



685. Allowance for products. — A scale of prices for products 

 was also fixed by the Division Chief, that for cheese ranging 

 from eight to sixteen cents per pound, according to the score 

 of these products as determined by expert judges. Whey was 

 rated at eight cents per hundred pounds. In the butter contests 

 all the fat produced by the cows was calculated as butter on the 

 basis of eighty per cent, fat in the butter. The price allowed for 

 the butter was forty-five cents or less per pound, depending upon 

 its quality as scored by experts. Solids not fat in the skim milk 

 and buttermilk were credited at two cents per pound. The live 

 weight gained by the cows during the trial was rated to their 

 credit at four and a half cents per pound. 



