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the best creamery districts of the state and found that the average cow of 

 82 different herds visited produced 125 pounds of butter a year." 



Professor Otis has "picked these cows up here and there" and neces- 

 sarily from among those furnishing the average of 90 to 125 pounds butter 

 yearly. The excellent record these have made while at the college, is, there- 

 fore, mostly the result of better care and handling, showing in a practical 

 manner what a dairyman can do with his own herd by giving thought to 



SCRUB COW No. 72. 

 Year's Record Milk, 7,965 pounds; test, 4.27 per cent.; butterfat, 340.42. 



the cow's needs in the way of foods to stimulate milk secretion and the 

 comfort of correct stable management. Professor Otis' letter, the pictures 

 that follow, and the yearly records of milk and butter production of these 

 "picked up scrub cows" will tell their own story to the patron who is honestly 

 trying to improve his herd and his dairying methods. 



