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the bringing forward of the best representatives of the breed they maintained. 

 Probably no similar contest was ever arranged and conducted on more even 

 terms. No criticisms were made against the management up to the hour of 

 announcing the results. 



The championship was won for this breed, the cow Clothilde receiving the 

 first prize, and the three-year-old heifer Clothilde 4th, the second prize, both 

 owned by Smiths & Powell Co. In other departments there were contests for 

 quality of butter where the breeds were indirectly pitted against one another. 

 In these contests this breed also won more than its appropriate proportionate 

 share of the prizes. 



It is only within the last few years that breeders of this cattle have been 

 specially testing the butter capacity of their cows. Messrs. T. G. Yeomans & 

 Sons were pioneers in this work. In tests made of their herd of less than 40 cows, 

 29 were found to average a seven days' production of 17 Ibs. 7 oz. Aaggie 2d 

 made 26 Ibs. 7 oz. in this length of time, 105 Ibs. 10i oz. in thirty days, and 304 Ibs. 

 5 oz. in ninety days. This was followed by tests of other breeders. Mr. Thos. 

 B. Wales also found 29 cows owned by him that made an average of 17 Ibs- 

 2.67 oz. One of these, Tritomia, at four years of age made 25 Ibs. 3^ oz* Messrs. 

 Smiths & Powell Co. find 100 cows owned by them that average 18 Ibs. T $ 7 oz. 

 in tests of the same length of time. Among these Netherland Princess 4th, 

 at 28 months old, made 21 Ibs. lOf oz.; Albino 2d at three years old 25 Ibs. 14jJ 

 oz., while in 30 days she produced 106 Ibs. 14 oz. Their cow Clothilde at full 

 age made in seven days 28 Ibs. 2 oz. In the small herd of Mr. Eugene Smith, 

 Nashville, Tenn., seven cows were reported with an average of 17 Ibs. 6.57 oz. 

 in seven days. Among other noted tests is that of Florence Herbert, owned by 

 Home Farm Co., Hampton, la., at 27 Ibs. 13| oz. in seven days, and that of 

 Nieltje Korndyke, the property of E. J. Burrell, Little Falls, N. Y., at 93 Ibs. 

 12 oz in thirty days. 



The following facts and figures concerning some remarkable milk records 

 made in 1889 by the Shadeland herd of Holsteins, will be of interest. The 

 figures will no doubt seem large to the farmer who thinks a cow which gives 

 20 quarts of milk a day an unusually good one. Probably one-half the cows in 

 Crawford county, Penn., do not give as much milk in a whole year as some of 

 these Shadeland Holsteins give in a month. No one pretends that these great 

 milkers keep up such a flow throughout the milking year, but the probability is 

 that the average of the whole Shadeland herd is three times that of the best 

 herd of crosses, or native cattle in this county or any other county in the United 

 States. While other cows of their herd nearly equalled the records given below 

 the following are the most remarkable, viz.: 



Shadeland Daisy, No. 3181 H. H.-B. In one day, 103 Ibs. 6oz.; in one week, 

 684 Ibs. i oz.; average per day of 97 Ibs. 11| oz. 



Shadeland Winnie, No. 10760 H.-F. H.-B., when only about 28 months old 

 In one day, 84 Ibs.; in two consecutive days, 164 Ibs. 12 oz.; in one week, 512 Ibs. 

 12 oz. ; average per day of 73 Ibs. 4 oz. ; June 17 to July 17, inclusive, 1,968 Ibs. 8 oz. 



Shadeland Bloom 4th, No. 6067 H.-F. H.-B.. while less than thirty-six 

 months old, which would be in her two-year old form, and with only her first 

 <3alf In one day, 107 Ibs. 4 oz.; in four days, 415 Ibs. 8oz., an average per day 

 of 103 Ibs. 14 oz.; in one week, 700 Ibs. 8 oz., an average per day of 100 Ibs. 14 oz.; 

 from July 5 to August 4, inclusive, 2,767 Ibs. 10 oz. 



Celeste 3d, No. 2896 H.-F. H.-B., in her three-year-old form In one day, 107 

 Ibs. 8 oz.; in five days, 522 Ibs. 8 oz., an average per day of 104 Ibs. 8 oz.; in one 

 week, 716 Ibs. 4 oz., an average per day of 102 Ibs. 5Voz.; July 4 to August 3, 

 inclusive, 2,878 Ibs. 4 oz. 



Shadeland Boon 2d, No. 8892 H. H.-B., in her five-year-old form In one 

 day, 122 Ibs. 8 oz.; in four consecutive days, 476 Ibs. 12 oz., an average per day 

 of 119 Ibs. 3 oz.; in one week, 801 Ibs. 8 oz., an average per day of 114 Ibs. 8 oz.; 

 in fifteen days, one-half month, 1,641 Ibs., an average per day of 109 Ibs. 6f oz.; 

 during the month of July, 3,170 Ibs., 4 oz.; and this after milking in six differ- 

 ent days in June, 625 Ibs. 12 oz., an average per day of 104 Ibs. 4f oz. 



It is interesting to know that these records are not mere accidents. The 

 Advanced Register of the Holstein-Friesian Association shows that Shadeland 

 Daisy, as a three-year old, milked 77 Ibs. 11 oz. in one day (the highest record 

 for that age up to that time), and that she has made several large records 

 since ; that Shadeland Bloom, the dam of Shadeland Bloom 4th, milked as a two- 

 year old 69 Ibs. in one day (the highest record to that date of a two-year-old), 



