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figures from which the following table has been compiled. It 

 applies to so many cows, spread over the country, and in no way 

 selected, that the average yields of milk and percentages of fat in 

 the milk may well be taken to apply to the whole stock of cows in 

 the country. 



This table shows an increase during the ten years of 8 J per cent, 

 in the yield of milk and of 2 per cent, in the percentage of fat. 



The Association of Bull Clubs and Control Societies in Funen 

 have published information of the yield of the Red Danish Dairy 

 Cattle in Funen.^ It deals with — 



A. All the cows in the herds of members ; 



B. All normal cows, not including heifers, cows going farrow 

 or having cast the calf. The figures for the year 1915-16 are as 

 follows : — 



In the above-quoted paper Mr. Morkeberg describes certain 

 competitions between entire dairy herds, carried on during two 

 whole years, with periodical weighing of the milk of each individual 

 cow, testing the percentage of fat, weighing the fodder given to 

 each cow, etc. Four such competitions have been carried on among 

 herds of Red Danish Dairy Cattle in Sealand, beginning respectively, 

 1897, 1899, 1905, and 1911. From the reports of these competitions 

 the following data have been extracted.** 



The number of herds entered were 5, 6, 15, and 10, and the 

 number of cows — whether in milk or not — were 102, 319, 441, and 



1 Fcellesledelsen af Kvoegavls-og Kontrolforeninger i Fyns Stift, Odense 

 1917. 



" * Beretning om to-aarige Konkurrencer, udgivet af Sjoellandske Landbo- 

 foreninger, 1899-1914. 



