80 DAIRY CATTLE AND MILK PRODUCTION 



the purpose of markets for disposing of surplus animals. 

 The breeding herds are so well controlled by this Association 

 and their breeding interests promoted so skillfully that the 

 demand for their cattle has been stimulated in other parts 

 of Europe and the surplus stock is readily disposed of at 

 good prices. This organization gives the records of pro- 

 duction of twenty-eight cows, the dams of bulls offered for 

 sale, as 9179 pounds of milk with an average fat content of 

 3.91 per cent and of total solids 13.28 per cent. 1 



1 Jahrbuch der Schweiz, 1904. 



