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THE CREAMERY PATRON S HANDBOOK. 

 KANSAS. 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION AT MANHATTAN. 



REPORT BY PROFESSOR D. H. OTIS, DAIRY HUSBANDMAN. 



Of the cows presented under this report Professor Otis says: 



"We send you some pictures of our best scrub cows, together with their 



records. I would say that the cows were common cows picked up here 



and there over the country, and we have no information as to their age or 



orevious treatment, before coming to college. The general type is 



SCRUB COW No. 33. 

 Tear's Record Milk, 8,642; test, 3.7; butterfat, 320.59. 



given in the picture, and I do not know as I can add anything in the way 

 of characteristics that would be of particular value; they are simply 'cows. 

 They have made good records for common stock. According to Secre- 

 tary Coburn's reports the average Kansas cow produces less than 90 pounds 

 of butter a year. I made an investigation four years ago in one of 



