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will be found to be better than one which pro- 

 vides for recording the yield of milk for a month 

 or even a week. This record for the day can be 

 removed, doubled up and placed in a locked 

 box provided with a small opening in the lid. 

 Once each week or month the daily records should 

 be posted to the milk ledger, a double page of 

 which, suitably ruled, should be devoted to each 

 animal. This double page should contain the 

 milk record, date of breeding, calves and their 

 sex, what disposition is made of them, and the 

 pedigree or history of the cow,— in brief, whether 

 she has been raised or bought, is full-blood, or 

 grade, or of unknown breeding. 



The objection to a monthly milk record- sheet, 

 if the herd is at all large, is that it is usually hung 

 or nailed on the wall, often where the light is 

 deficient. Of necessity, it is too large to be 

 placed on a shelf near a window, as smaller 

 daily record blanks can be. With the blank on 

 the shelf, the figures can be recorded legibly. 

 On the large monthly record- sheet, placed on the 

 wall, it is difficult for the tyro to record plainly. 

 Then, too, the record becomes blurred and soiled, 

 and the record- sheet is too cumbersome for con- 

 venient filing. All original records should be 

 preserved for at least one year. A weekly record- 

 blank is given above, and serves well for small 

 herds. On the first form is recorded the yield of 



