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milk, with an average of 3.25 per cent, of butter fat, equivalent to 297.43 

 Ibs. of butter fat or 347 Ibs. of butter. She is promising remarkably well 

 to continue this record for some months yet. 



ALMA MARIE 3rd PURE BRED HOLSTEIN. 



The following report on two cows of the state that have made phe- 

 nomenal . butter records, and were tested during the year 1899, is taken 

 from the herd register for January, 1900, of the American Guernsey Cattle 

 Club, vol. 10, and an annual report of the Wisconsin Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station. After the tests the two cows were sold for $4,500, and 

 have since maintained a most splendid record. 



James H. Beirne of Oakfield. Wis., entered the two Guernsey cows, 

 Lily Ella 7240, and Lilyita 7241 , in the single cow contest of the Home Butter 

 tests for 1899, of the American Guernsey Cattle Club. Both cows were 

 five years old and both calved on the same day, Dec. 7, 1898, and both 

 were sir^d by the same bull, Lily's Bonny Boy 2676. They were bred by 

 N. K. Fairbanks at Lake Geneva, Wis. Lilyita's dam was Zoelita 5949, 



