MOORE'S GERBEN 4TH. 67 



milking done, most of the milk weighed, as set forth in the statement hereto 

 attached and marked " A," of the seven days' test in said statement set forth. 

 I assisted in the churning of said milk and worked all the butter churned from 

 said milk dry as it is done at my creamery, and weighed said butter, which 

 weighed 32 Jbs. M. E. MOORE. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, a notary public within and for Clinton 

 County, Missouri, by M. E. Moore, to me well known and is entitled* to full 

 credit. A. W. FREDERICK, Notary Public. 



The feed consumed by Gerben 4th each day while making the test was 40 

 Ibs. corn meal, ground fine, 18 Ibs. wheat bran, all the sugar beets, clover and 

 timothy she wanted, with a little Northwestern Condition Powder each day, 

 and never refused to eat preparatory to or during said test; is now producing 

 between 60 and 70 Ibs. of milk daily. 



Gerben 4th, 1080, D.-F. H. B., recorded as Gerben No. 5562, H. H. B., was 

 selected in Friesland by Mr. C. Baldwin, of Nelson, Ohio, the noted "cattle 

 expert;" was bred by A. S. Heeg, Osterend; calved May 3, 1882. Dam, Gerben 

 3d, No. 250, F. H. B., Europe. Grandam on both dam and sire's side, Gerben, 

 No. 86, F. H. B., Europe. 



She is large (weight before calving, 1,684 Ibs.), very straight and level, 

 remarkably broad across the hips, flanders escutcheon, udder large (measured 

 five feet, seven and three-fourths inches), mammary veins double extension 

 and branched. Chest vein, very thin neck, horns drooping and remarkably 

 fine, eyes very full and prominent, mellow skin, hair silky, dandruff sections 

 oily. 



Since above test, with feed reduced, and the weather much colder, three 

 parties saw Gerben 4th milked, weighed the milk morning, 26 3-16 Ibs.; noon, 

 18 3-16 Ibs.; evening, 14 15-16 Ibs. Total, 59 5-16 Ibs., from which was churned 

 and well worked 3 3-4 Ibs. of butter. 



The above butter record we believe was the largest ever made for one week 

 by any Holstein-Friesian cow at this date. 



Prof. W. A. Henry, of the Wisconsin Experiment Station, writes of this 

 record: "From Mr. Moore we solicited a sample of milk of this cow, giving 

 explicit directions how it should be taken. Our request was promptly acceded 

 to, and a sample of the milk was received February 8, 1889, which analyzed : 

 Specific gravity, 1.0314; total solids, 13.70; fat, 5.13. 



"Mr. Moore reported the yield of milk on the day the sample was taken to be 

 63 Ibs. Granting that the milk was as rich in fat as the sample received, there 

 would be a little over 3.2 Ibs. of pure butter fat in the day's milk, which if all 

 was recovered in the butter, would make fully four pounds of butter contain- 

 ing 80 per cent of butter fat. Mr. Moore states that the sample was taken 

 exactly according to directions. 



" At first we thought to let the matter rest at this point, but, believing 

 that we should get still nearer the cow, I sent Mr. F. G. Short, a chemist of 

 this station, to Cameron to secure samples. Mr. Moore had no knowledge what- 

 ever of Mr. Short's intended visit, but received him cordially, and allowed him 

 every privilege. Mr. Short took every precaution to secure samples of Gerben 

 4th's milk, attending the weighing himself and sealing the samples as soon as 

 drawn. Three samples were taken, the first on February 17, at noon ; the sec- 

 ond in the evening, and the third the following morning. Mr. Short attended 

 personally to seeing that the cow was milked dry in the morning of the day the 

 first sample was taken. 



" Every condition fora large milk flow and butter yield was against the 

 cow at this date : she had been bred a few days previous, her grain feed had 

 been changed and reduced from what it had been during the large test reported 

 by Mr. Moore. February 16 it had rained all day, and that night had turned to 

 zero weather; the cow was not blanketed, nor given any special attention, and 

 went with the herd, as usual, out into a field for the water she drank. As 

 shown by the table, she gave nearly 49 Ibs. of milk in three milkings, from 

 which samples were secured. The samples taken on February 17 and 18 were 

 received February 22, and at once analyzed, the milk being still sweet. The 

 following tables give the results of the analysis : 



