No. 4. 



REPORT OF DAIRY BUREAU. 



449 



Creameries. 



* Received too late for scoring 



Fair Tests. 



The executive officer of the Bureau has been called upon 

 twice to take charge of the dairy premiums at agricultural 

 fairs, where the prize was offered for the greatest amount of 

 butter fat produced on the fair grounds during the exhibition. 

 This form of test is very practical, and is growing in popu- 

 larity. The value of a butter cow consists in what she will 

 produce, and there is no better way of ascertaining this than 

 by an actual test of the milk. This method of testing cows 

 for the premiums of the agricultural societies is a marked 

 step in advance of the old-time way. At one of the fairs, 

 the Berkshire, the entries were not enough to call for any 

 test being made. At the fair of the Worcester South Society 

 tests were made of the product of the competing animals 

 for one day, with the following result, the two rows of fig- 

 ures being the weight and test of the evening and morning 

 milkinsr : — 



