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MICHIGAN. 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION AT ST. ANTHONY PARK. 



REPORT BY C. D. SMITH, DIRECTOR. 



Yearly records are reported by Professor Smith of three of the best 

 cows of the station herd as follows: 



BELLE SARCASTIC, Holstein-Friesian, H. B. 23039, produced in one 

 year, 21,075.8 pounds of milk containing 632.78 pounds fat. In a lactation 

 period of sixteen months gave 27,626.3 pounds milk containing 827.22 

 pounds fat. 



HOUWTJE D., Holstein-Friesian, H. B., 12005, produced in one year 

 19,025 pounds milk containing 660.14 pounds fat. 



ROSA BONHEUR STH, Holstein-Friesian, H. B. 11227, produced in one 

 day 106.75 pounds milk, and in 10 days, 2,989 pounds milk containing 

 26 pounds fat. 



MINNESOTA. 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION AT ST. ANTHONY PARK. 



REPORT BY PROFESSOR T. L. HAECKER. 



COWS FOR THE DAIRY. 



The Minnesota Experiment Station has completed the eleventh year 

 in which complete records have been kept of the amount of milk and butterfat 

 yielded by each cow at every milking and the amount and kind of food 

 given each day, with its chemical composition. Some of the discoveries 

 made by this comprehensive and careful work have been referred to in the 

 chapter on economical feeding of dairy cows, in which the subject is treated 

 from the feeder's standpoint. No reference is made to the kind or type of 

 cow that makes the best return in the dairy, and to make the Creamery Pa- 

 trons' Handbook a more complete guide for the dairyman, a little definite 

 information on this subject seems desirable. 



Every farmer has observed that there are good cows and poor cows in 

 every breed. Some cows yield a large mess of milk when fresh, but soon 

 begin to shrink in flow; some give only a medium yield when fresh, but are 

 very persistent milkers; some make a very creditable showing in yield, but 

 the milk contains a small per cent, of butterfat. Some that are not adapted 

 for dairy work, have, under a forced process of feeding, given satisfactory 

 and even large returns for a year or two and then have died or failed to 



