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skim milk; and if it were possible to collect dairies of such cows, 

 either one of two things would happen the compilation of fortunes 

 the general reduction of foreign dairy imports perhaps, both. As- 

 suming from the yield shown by Xo. 3 and the return she made that 

 the milk produced Sd. a gallon, this would be a decidedly good summer 

 price. 



A new feature in this record is the manure, which appears to have 

 been well looked after, and very properly so, especially since, as is seen 

 below, the cows had a considerable quantity of cake. The feeding was 



Labor is charged 2Ss. 3d. per cow, and haulage 9s. lid, making a 

 total of 10 2s. 9$. per cow ; or, when considering the valuation of each 

 animal for they were valued both at the beginning and end of the 

 trialan average of 10 14s. Id., the real figures running from 9 4 Jd. 

 in one case to 14 los. 2d. in another. 



Since writing the above we have felt it necessary to again examine 

 Mr. Tough's record, the yield of milk being so surprising. It will be 

 remembered that Lord Braybrooke's cows gave an average of about 

 2,100 quarts for the year, and yet, as shown above, Lord Warwick's in 

 every case gave more than this for the seventeen weeks. Lord Bray- 

 brooke's, again, averaged 5 quarts to 10 quarts a day for the period in 

 milk (not the year), while Lord Warwick's gave, as shown above, from 

 17 to 23} quarts for the seventeen weeks. With all respect, and we 

 are bound to take Mr. Tough's figures, we consider his record, if not so 

 elaborate as a. matter of figures, yet one infinitely more worthy of a 

 challenge cup than any other, for his herd is a truly marvelous one, and 

 will take our American friends all their time to rival. 



There are 10 cows averaging 19.77 quarts per day for seventeen en- 

 tire weeks, one actually reaching 23.84 quarts. This cow returned : 



For milk sold (,2, 189 quarts) 18 4 10 



Butter (58 pounds) 393 



Skim-milk (581 quarts) 2 8 5 



Manure 15 5 



Total return for seventeen weeks 24 17 11 



Let us see what has been done in the milking competitions as a guide 

 to the value of this return. At the 1880 trials the highest Jersey or 

 Guernsey yield was 38 pounds 5i ounces ; the highest Shorthorn, 50 

 pounds 5 ounces; the highest Dutch and cross-bred, 43 pounds 12 ounces, 

 and we think we are right in believing that neither at the 188 1 nor the 

 1882 trials were the highest of these figures exceeded. At all events 

 here are cows winning in milking trials which give less in their flush 

 for a single day than Lord Warwick's best average for 11 9 days. Facts 

 speak for themselves, and it appears to us that Lord Warwick's can 

 not only beat any herd of which the public has lately been informed, but 

 that he would stand the greatest posible chance of carrying off the 

 chief milking trials. 



