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It would be of value, as well as of interest, to know how far 

 the improvement in milk and butter fat records in the United States 

 has resulted from the adoption of the Hezelmund plan of milking, 

 systematized at the Ladelund Dairy School, Denmark, and promul- 

 gated in America by the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, Bulletin No. 96, "Investigations of Method of 

 Milking." In Bulletin No. 107, dated December, 1903, there was 

 given full details of official tests of two Red Polled cows, and of 

 the grade Red Polled "Lady," 5-yr.-old, with her photo process por- 

 trait. Her sires for two generations were Red Polled bulls from 

 Mr. J. W. Martin's herd. Principal W. L. Carlyle's report on "Lady," 

 printed in the "Chicago Breeders' Gazette," showed: Milk 10016.4 

 lb., fat 409.05 lb., in eight months. She was tested from January 

 9th to 15th, 1904, under the supervision of an expert from the Illi- 

 nois Experiment Station. A note in Bulletin No. 107 gave the re- 

 sults: Milk 406.1 lb., fat 17.566 lb., average per cent 4.23. The cow had 

 calved, down December 27th, 1903. The food consumed by Lady 

 during the Illinois expert's test was: Silage 210 lb., sugar beet 

 575 lb., hay 456 lb., -corn meal 21 lb., oil meal 31 lb., gluten meal 

 11 lb., bran 42 lb., ground oats 21 lb.; market cost for the week, 

 $1.93. In one year she gave: Milk 12,585 lb., butter fat 471.40 lb., 

 equal to 549.57 lb. of butter. Her products were at market value 

 worth $120.27; cost of food, $43.96; profit, $76.31. The paragraph 

 thus sent forth by the chief of the Wisconsin Experiment Station 

 had as its heading: "A Type of Farmer's Cow. In November, 1902, 

 a communication from the Station to Mr. Martin, who had been one 

 of the two Wisconsin men that had presented the cow for full know- 

 ledge of the type, contained this paragraph: "You will be very .glad 

 to know that the Red Polled cow Lady has just finished a week's 

 record, in which she has given us 17 lb. of butter. She has given 

 as high as 60 Ibs. of milk in a single day. Wish that I might have 

 a pure bred or two like her." 



Lady's record continued from the year 1901-2 to the year 1905-6. 

 At the beginning of the record she had been in milk '81 days. Her 

 live weight was 1,158 lb. The several years' record was: Milk 

 9534.4 lb., fat 4.03, per cent 384.27, net profit 51.04 dol.; 11025.1 

 lb., fat 449.36 lb. (324), profit 62.36 dol.; 11632.6 lb., fat 492.97 lb. 

 (322), profit 77.68 dol.; 10516.0 lb., fat 415.79 lb. (321), profit 58.30 

 dol.; 11287.5 lb., fat 449.73 (315), profit 69.81 dol. Total value of 

 five years' products 576.22 dol., cost of feed 257.03 dol., net profit 

 319.19 dol. 



A Farmer's Cow class was provided at the Chicago Interna- 

 tional Show, December, 1902. In the "Breeders' Gazette" of Feb- 

 ruary llth, 1902, Mr. McLain Smith remarked on the non-issue of 

 the official report. The matter had, in fact, been well-nigh forgotten, 

 though the contest was one of the richest in the show in money 

 prizes. A representative of the "Breeders' Gazette" thereupon, after 

 search, found in the general manager's office the papers containing 

 the markings of the judges, which were in some way, misplaced. 

 These showed that there were five competitors, of which four were 

 Red Polls. Each of the cows had been tested three times during 

 the year. 13154 Beatrice A3 (5-yr.-old), which won first place, 

 had milked 330 days: butter fat (estimate) 337.8 lb., 35 points. Her 

 calf, hand-fed, weighed 710 lb. at ten months old, and, judged by 

 form and handling, was credited with 40 per cent, while the cow got 

 19 points, so 'that the total score was 94 points. 13518 Waxy All 



