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pounds milk, yielding 2 16.66 pounds butter, and gained 81 pounds 

 live weight. In a 30 days' butter test at the Columbian 24 Short- 

 horns made 15,618.3 pounds milk, yielding 662.66 pounds butter, 

 at a net profit of $1 19. 13. Both Jersey and Guernsey made less 

 milk but more butter and a greater net profit. In this test the 

 best Shorthorn cow was Kitty Clay 4th. She produced 1592.8 

 pounds milk, yielding 62.24 pounds butter, showing a net profit of 

 $19.57. In a fourth test of one week six Shorthorn heifers 

 under three years old competed with six Jersey heifers, the 

 Shorthorns producing 2581 pounds milk, yielding 122.36 pounds 

 butter, at a net profit of $47.42 ; the Jerseys gave 3356.6 pounds 



milk, yielding 194.22 

 pounds butter and a net 

 profit of $56.27. 



The dairy test of Short- 

 horns at the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition in 

 1904 yielded more satis- 

 factory returns than has 

 any previous public test 

 of the breed. In a test of 

 120 days, in which 20 

 Shorthorns were carried 

 entirely through, the cows 

 made an average of 442 1.6 

 pounds milk, 165.3 pounds butter fat, 382.7 pounds solids not fat, 

 and an average gain in weight during 1 14 days of 105.3 pounds. 

 Numerous public dairy tests of Shorthorns have demonstrated 

 the ample capacity of the breed at the pail. In 1901, at the 

 Pan-American Exposition, between May 1 and October 31, five 

 Shorthorn cows produced a total of 1307.55 pounds churned 

 butter, yielding a net profit of $164.77. At tne London Dairy 

 Show in 1904 a fine showing of Shorthorns was made, one cow 

 producing 58 pounds milk in a day, and 14 averaging 46.6 

 pounds milk per day. Many state-fair records show the Short- 

 horn to yield a liberal milk flow. An interesting record of a 

 grade is the cow Rose, that at the Wisconsin Experiment Station 

 in 326 days produced 10,163 pounds milk, containing 433.82 



Fig. 76. Fair Queen, the champion Shorthorn 

 cow at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 

 in 1904. Owned by E. W. Bowen, Delphi, 

 Indiana. Photograph by the author 



