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days each month is weighed and tested by the representative 

 of the experiment station. 



Objections to Seven-Day Tests. The Holstein-Friesian 

 Association should be given credit for starting the system of 

 testing cows, and for being the first to adopt the Babcock test. 

 The dairyman is interested in knowing what it is possible to 

 get from a cow in a week, but much more interested in know- 

 ing what the cow in question will do in a year. The cow that 

 makes a large weekly record is not always an animal that 

 makes a large or even fair record for a year. There is an 

 increasing demand for yearly records, and it is probable that 

 in the near future all records will be made by the year and 

 the short period will be dropped. A more serious objection 

 to the seven-day test is that it makes it possible to obtain 

 an abnormally high per cent of fat, as first shown by the writer. 1 

 The average per cent of fat for the breed is 3.45, but many 

 seven-day tests are now reported with a per cent of fat over 

 4.50, and several above 5 per cent. 



Many of the largest yearly milk records made by this breed 

 were by some of the early imported cows or their immediate 

 descendants. These records, however, were all private, and 

 are not ranked with those authenticated by experiment 

 stations. Some of the best of the early private milk records 

 are the following : 



Clothilde 26,021 Ib. milk 1 year 



Clothilde 2d 23,602 Ib. milk 1 year 



Pietertje 2d 30,318 Ib. milk 1 year 



Boukje 21,679 Ib. milk 1 year 



Sultana 22,042 Ib. milk 1 year 



Princess of Wayne 29,008 Ib. milk 1 year 



Fat records were not made of the above. 



1 Hoard's Dairyman, Vol. XL, p. 696. 



