48 BOAKD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Having the milk of the noted large herd of full-blood Hol- 

 steins imported by Geo. E. Brown & Co. of Aurora, among 

 that of other patrons, I determined some time ago to insti- 

 tute a careful comparison of the Holstein milk with that of 

 other dairies. We have noticed all summer that our testers 

 (cream gauges) showed in favor of the Holstein milk, and 

 therefore were prepared for the favorable showing in the 

 recent experiments. I set the milk of Holstein cows (about 

 fifty head) by itself, and in precisely the same manner as 

 the other milk, the cream churned separately and the cheese 

 also made by itself, and all in the same way, as I wished, for 

 my own satisfaction, to make the trial strictly impartial. 

 From 100 pounds of Holstein milk I averaged four and one- 

 sixteenth pounds of butter and seven and forty-seven one- 

 hundredths pounds of cheese. The butter was very firm 

 and No. 1 in all respects, and the cheese of very superior 

 quality. From my other milk I averaged thi"ee pounds of 

 butter and seven pounds of cheese per 100 pounds of milk. 

 The Holstein milk produced. fourteen per cent, cream and 

 the other eleven to twelve per cent. The Holstein milk is 

 drawn three miles, and the other ranging from half a mile to 

 four miles. In both cases the night and morning milk were 

 mixed and re-set, and, of course, we could not gain as favor- 

 able results from either as we could have done if we liad had 

 the milk fresh from the cows ; and I tliink that treatment 

 operated more against the Holstein milk than against the 

 other, for the reason that the Holstein milk is more dense 

 than the other, and hence the cream would not again sep- 

 arate so readily ; but this peculiarity in the Holstein milk is 

 offset by another which I have noticed particularly — it is, 

 that it is the best keeping milk I ever handled, therefore it 

 can be held longer, a fact that ought to operate in its favor 

 for marketing. 



" Until recently I have had only a portion of the Messrs. 

 Brown's Holstein milk, but so well am I satisfied with the 

 quality of the milk for both butter and cheese, that I have 

 contracted for the whole product, paying them the highest 

 market price and a handsome bonus per cow, and we will do 

 the same to others bringing us the same quality of milk." 



Mr. S. Aiken of Decorah, Iowa, says, " I submit here- 



