50 HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE. 



oz., this being the last week of the year's test or record and in middle of win- 

 ter with temperature 10 degrees below zero, and cow said to be nearly three 

 months in calf. 



" Affidavit of Dudley Miller of Oswego, N. Y., secretary of Board of Trade 

 of Oswego, N. Y., testifies that after seeing Pietertje 2d milked dry the evening 

 of February 16th, 1888, that on February 17 he saw her milk 60 Ibs. 4 oz. 

 This, the last week in the year's record and nearly three months in calf. 



4 'Affidavit of Samuel C. Drew, Cuba, N. Y., breeder of Jerseys, testifies that 

 he saw Pietertje 2d milked dry the evening of February 22d, 1888, and morn- 

 ing, noon and night milking of February 23d, 1888, making just twenty-four 

 hours production, in which time she gave 60 Ibs. 13 oz. This being the last 

 milking of the year's record. 



" Affidavit of Geo. D. Whipple, Cuba, N. Y., testifies that on February 22d, 

 1888, at evening milking of Pietertje 2d he saw her milked clean, and on Feb- 

 ruary 23d he saw her milked in the morning, at noon and at evening, and in 

 the twenty-four hours she milked 60 Ibs. 13 oz. This completed the year's record, 

 which foots up to 30,318^ Ibs. 



"Affidavit of Alfred Jencks, Cuba, N. Y., testifies that he has had full care 

 of Pietertje 2d both in feeding and milking. He testifies that Pietertje 2d 

 milked in exactly one year, 30,318| Ibs., and that all the different tests are true 

 and correct in every particular, also that Pietertje 2d was milked only three 

 times per day during this record, and that she was nearly three months in calf 

 when she closed her record. He also testifies in relation to Pietertje 3d, for- 

 merly Milla, a daughter of Pietertje 2d. 



"Affidavits of Henry C. Morgan, cashier of First National Bank, Cuba, N.Y., 

 and Chas. S. Davis, cashier of Cuba National Bank, Cuba, N. Y., both testify 

 as to seeing Pietertje 2d milked, and the milk poured from pail to pail till thor- 

 oughly mixed and cooled ; then that they took the same and expressed two 

 packages one to Cornell University, Ithica, N. Y., and the other to New York 

 Experimental Station at Geneva, N. Y. 



" Pietertje 2d's record is supported in its different forms by nearly twice 

 as many affidavits as any other milk record ever before made." 



Mr. Henry C. Jewett of Buffalo, N. Y., stated in a paper read before the 

 Farmers' Club in Buffalo in 1886 that the milk of his herd was marketed in glas& 

 bottles in Buffalo at nine cents per quart; the gross annual income per cow 

 exceeding $300. For five years, since the herd was established in 1880, each and 

 all the mature cows in it, averaged over 11,200 Ibs. of milk per annum with but 

 two milkings per day and ordinary good feeding. 



The following excerpt from the article of C. W. Jennings of Belleville, N. Y. r 

 in an issue of Hoard's Dairyman, affords a fine opportunity to recommend a 

 practical cow to farmers. The earnings of the grade Holstein herd stand at $81 

 per cow as against $29.75 for the grade Jersey herd, $28.41 per cow of the mixed 

 Jersey herd, $42.69 per cow, average of the " natives." Below is the excerpt: 



" The Jersey Bulletin is of course an ' organ.' Its chief business seems to 

 be the publishing of tests of high-toned Jersey cows, and belittling and misrep- 

 resenting all other breeds. It is careful to 'keep dark,' however, the poor 

 Jersey's tests. Probably they are 'crowded out.' Last week in referring to 

 the 'cow census' of this town, it dubbed the entire number of cows 5,507 as 

 ' regular old 

 For the editor's es 

 Jersey herds. 



them taken from that same ' cow census' returns. They may not prove what 

 Horace Greeley termed ' mighty entertaining reading ' for the Bulletin of big 

 tests, but they will do for a change. 



STATEMENTS. 



Cows, 22 high grade Jerseys. Value of cheese, $214.55 



Value of calves sold and raised, . . $178.94 Total earnings 312.55 



Value of cheese, 472.51 Earnings per cow, 28.41 



Value of deacon skins, .... 3.00 



No butter. No. 17. 



Total earnings, 654.45 Cows, 7 natives. 



Earnings per cow, 29.75 Value of calves sold and raised, . . $45.00 



No. 54. Value of butter, 36.00 



Cows, 11 Jerseys and Jersey grades. Value of cheese, 200.00 



Value of calves raised and sold, . . 42.00 Total earnings, 281.00 



Value of butter, 56.00 Earnings per cow 45.21 



