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(6-yr.-old), placed third, totalled 91 points, the cow 24 points; milked 

 270 days, fat 287.6 lb., 31 points, the calf 36 points. 12715 Nellie's 

 Lady V13 (5-yr.-old), placed fourth, scored 23 points, milked 280 

 days, fat 276 lb., 30 points; the calf 36 points; total score 89 points. 

 9701 Princess 2d HI, placed fifth, also scored 23 points, milked 

 360 days, fat 307.8 lb., 35 points; her calf 30 points; total score, 

 88 points. , 



Second place went to the Iowa Agricultural College for Col- 

 lege Moore, a Shorthorn. She had milked 333 days, butter fat esti- 

 mate 315.1 lb., 35 points. Her calf, 10 months, 19 days old, weighed 

 670 lb., and was credited with 32 points, this last being adjudged 

 on its worth as a beef animal. This, the only Shorthorn exhibit, 

 was awarded a total of 92 points, the cow winning 25 points, as com- 

 pared with 24 points by Waxy, 23 by those which were placed 

 fourth and fifth, and 19 by the first prize winner, whose calf was 8 

 points ahead of the Shorthorn's at the same age. The Shorthorn 

 calf, when 355 days old, had increased its weight to 730 lb. But one 

 of the Red Polled calves, which had been hand-fed, and was 380 

 days old when competing, had weighed 860 lb. The judges were 

 Professor W. L. Carlyle, of the Wisconsin Experimental Station, and 

 Professor G. E. Day, of Ontario Agricultural College. 



A goodly sum was announced as subscribed for a similar open 

 Farmers' Cow class at the Chicago International Exposition in 1903. 

 There were, however, only two competitors. Mr. J. W. Martin's Red 

 Polled 8487 Duchess of Wisconsin 5th U5 was awarded first prize. 

 Tested at the Wisconsin Experimental Station, she was credited with 

 9,940.1 lb. milk in 10 m., 20d., 440 lb. of butter fat, average 4.43 per 

 cent. Her yield for 365 days was 11,015 lb. milk, 487.97 lb. fat. 

 The official report not being published, and Mr. J. McLain Smith, 

 the exhibitor of the other Red Polled cow, which was awarded sec- 

 ond prize, having died, further statistics are not available. The 

 noteworthy fact arising out of Chicago business men's endeavors 

 to establish a Farmers' Cow competition was that it had failed 

 through the refusal of breeders other than those of the Red Polled 

 to meet any competitors, and to be content with the boast that the 

 Shorthorn was par excellence the dual purpose breed. 



As evidence of the cross Red Poled sire Shorthorn dam, Dr. J. 

 R. Shingerland, of Union Village, Ohio, reported a year's feeding 

 results (1895-6), 18 two-yr.-old steers, average 790 lb., gained 702 

 lb. on the average. They had no hay, as the season was one of 

 drought, but corn (maize) fodder after the corn was husked, and 

 each steer 50 bushels of corn. 35 Shorthorn steers "of the very best," 

 average weight 940 lb., gained 600 lb. as the average, fed on "rea- 

 sonably good pasture," corn fodder and hay, with 85 bushels of corn 

 for each steer. All sold on the same day to the same person at 4 

 cents per pound. 



THE BUTTER INHERITANCE 



Quotations have already been given as to the butter production 

 of the Suffolk Polled in the olden time. Arthur Young, in 1786, re- 

 ported that "the butter and cheese only of a farm of 90 pounds a 

 year let nearly 'at its value, sold for 140 pounds." ... "A farm 

 of 185 pounds a year: 121 firkins of butter, and 65 weys of cheese, 

 these at 33s., the price sold at 306 pounds, 8 s." "Another instance, 

 in which 20 cows made 80 firkins of butter, besides cheese; and an- 

 other, in which the cows made 4 firkins of butter each, but no cheese." 

 "Mr. Chevallier's cows have paid more than once above 8 pounds 



