THE DAIRY HERD. 13 



horizontal bar, so I could operate the six at one 

 time. This work paid me in several ways. It 

 paid me to know my individual cows, so I could 

 dispose of the unprofitable ones. It caused me 

 to think better of my business and of myself. 

 It opened a great field for improvement in the 

 line of selection and breeding a field large 

 enough to give room for the most ambitious 

 and progressive person. 



Percentages of cream and fat. The follow- 

 ing table shows the percentage of cream in 

 fourteen different patrons' milk; also the per- 

 centage of fat found in the same milk by the 

 Babcock test: 



TABLE I. MILK FROM DIFFERENT DAIRIES. 



Per cent Per cent 



Cream. Fat. 



17 3.60 



16 3.85 



15 3.40 



8 3.00 



15 3.00 



16 3.80 



14.. ..3.50 



Per cent Per cent 



Cream. Fat. 



17 4.30 



17 3.85 



8 3.80 



10 3.60 



10 3.50 



10 ." 4.05 



10.. ..3.70 



And the second and third tables show the 

 different cows in two dairies, the first column 

 being the percentage of cream and the second 

 column the percentage of fat by the Babcock 

 test. A study of these two tables will show 

 the unreliability of the cream test in judging 

 the butter value of milk: 



