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Hon. N. B. Dudley, Oakville, Ky., writes under date of July 6, 1887: "My 

 Holstein-Friesian cow Nymph, No. 2844, Vol. VI, has averaged for two months, 

 during the flush of the milk flow, 80 Ibs. of milk per day, and has made 18 IDS. 

 of unsalted butter per week. She is five years old; had good pasture to run in 

 both day and night. She was milked three times every day, and had for a 

 twenty-four hours' ration 12 Ibs. of ground food, being equal parts of oats, 

 corn, meal, wheat bran and N. P. oil cake meal fed dry." 



The Holstein-Friesian herd of Messrs. T. G. Yeomans & Sons, in May, 1888, 

 included five cows that averaged 23 Ibs. 7 oz., twelve cows that averaged 21 Ibs. 

 6| oz., and twenty-nine cows (nine two-year-olds) that averaged 17 Ibs. 7|- oz. 

 well-worked unsalted butter in a week. To this herd belongs Aaggie 2d,~that 

 has made a butter record of 11 Ibs. 12 oz. in three days, 15 Ibs. 6 oz. in four 

 days, 26 Ibs. 7 oz. in seven days, 105 Ibs. 10^ oz. in thirty days, 207 Ibs. 3.V oz. in 

 sixty days, and 304 Ibs. 5| oz. in ninety days. Aaggie 2d's milk record is 20,763 

 Ibs. 3 oz. in one year. 



The herd of Thos. B. Wales, then secretary of the Holstein-Friesian Asso- 

 ciation, had to its credit twenty cows that have averaged 20 Ibs. 6 T 8 T oz. of 

 butter in seven days. This noted herd was headed by Mercedes Prince, whose 

 six daughters at the average age of twenty-six months and ten days, averaged 

 16 Ibs. 5 oz. of butter in a week. The six averaged a pound of butter from 

 16.32 Ibs. of milk. The dam of the bull was Mercedes, that won the butter 

 championship of the world with her butter record of 99 Ibs. 64 oz. in thirty 

 days. His grandatn Lady Walworth's record is 19 Ibs. in seven days. Tri- 

 tomia is another famous butter cow of this herd that made a four-year-old butter 

 record of 25 Ibs. 8i oz. in seven days. Among the first honors awarded her in 

 competition with all others was at the Minnesota State Fair in 1886; and in 

 1887 at the American Fat Stock and Dairy Show in Chicago her butter was 

 awarded sweepstakes prize over all others, and scored higher than any other 

 butter in the show. 



Among other noted Holstein-Friesian herds of butter cows is that of Messrs. 

 Smiths & Powell Co., with two cows that have records of over 100 pounds of 

 butter in thirty days, viz.: Aegis, 100 Ibs. 6 oz., and Albino 2d, 106 Ibs. 14 oz. 

 made in her three-year-old form. Her seven-day record was 25 Ibs. 14f 

 oz., an average of a pound of butter to 18.69 Ibs. of milk. As a two-year-old 

 this heifer exceeded the greatest milk record for one year with her record of 

 18,484 Ibs. 13 oz. The great Clothilde, that led the world's annual milk record 

 with 26,021 Ibs. 2 oz. in one year at the New York Dairy Show in May, 1887, 

 won first honor as a butter cow, defeating all competitors, including Jerseys 

 and Guernseys, with 2 Ibs. 74- oz. in twenty-four hours, her daughter, Clothilde 

 4th, making the next highest record with 2 Ibs. oz. Clothilde's record for 

 seven days is 28 Ibs. 2 oz., and Clothilde 4th's at three years, 23 Ibs. 10 oz., 

 averaging a pound of butter to 18.44 Ibs. of milk. Aegis 2d's butter record for 

 thirty days is 96 Ibs. 5 oz., and Netherland Dorinda's 96 Ibs. 2 oz. Nine cows 

 in the herd have records for thirty days of over 90 Ibs. and average over 95 Ibs. 

 The following average butter records for a week have been made in the same 

 herd : Fifteen cows averaged 24 Ibs. {4 oz. ; twenty-four cows averaged 23 Ibs. ; 

 thirty-five cows averaged 22 Ibs. 1 oz.; forty-seven cows averaged 21 Ibs. oz.; 

 sixty-two cows averaged 20 Ibs. ff oz.,and 100 cows averaged 18 Ibs. -fifc oz. 

 These records include those made by heifers. 



Prof. Alvord, after having tested the milk record of Clothilde said, regard- 

 ing this herd and its management : "Everything convinces me that there was 

 no improper practice or deceit, but that all the conduct of the Lakeside herd 

 was accurate and honorable, and the records thoroughly reliable." 



The record of Powell Bros, great cow is thus reported: " Shadeland Boon, 

 8887, from June 6, to July 6, 1888, inclusive, thirty-one days, produced 125 Ibs. 

 12 oz. of unsalted butter. This butter was made from 1,772 1-2 Ibs. of milk, 

 which she gave during that period. For this remarkable record it took only 

 14.09 Ibs. of milk for a pound of butter. The average for the whole time was 

 over four pounds per day. For seven consecutive days she produced 31 Ibs. 15 

 1-2 oz., or an average of 4 Ibs. 9 1-4 oz. per day ; and during that week she gave 

 400 1-4 Ibs. of milk, and it took only 12.51 Ibs. of milk for a pound of butter ; and 

 for four consecutive days her milk made 19 Ibs. 1 oz. of butter, and it lacked only 

 3 3-4 oz. per day of making 5 Ibs. per day for that time. The 19 Ibs. 1 oz. of 

 butter were made from 219 Ibs. of milk, which shows that it took only 11.18 Ibs. 

 of milk for a pound of butter, while for two days she lacked only 2 oz. of 



