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sampling each cow's milk for fourteen consecutive milkings every 

 seventh week. Two types of record are illustrated below. 



YIELD OF MILK JULY 30, P.M., TO AUGUST 6, A.M. 



ONE COW'S RECORD AT SEVEN-WEEK INTERVALS 



122. CHECKING UP THE POULTRY PLANT 1 

 BY G. M. GO WELL 



It was found in practice that, with the most careful selection, we 

 were including in our breeding pens birds that were not great pro- 

 ducers, and that it was a prime necessity to ascertain the exact record 



1 Adapted from Annual Report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 1900, pp. 97-99; 1903, p. 70. It is true that the breeding experiments based 

 upon this method did not have the results expected. But whatever the final 

 conclusion of that controversy, the value of records of actual performance, as a 

 basis of weeding out the unprofitable and continuing the profitable birds, cannot 

 be doubted. EDITOR. 



