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HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE. 



condition when I purchased her and the change of altitude together with the 

 fact that the months of July and August of this year have been very hot and 

 dry, have operated against her and today the heifer is not in the condition she 

 should be to do her best, and I confidently believe that another year, in the 

 four-year-old form, this heifer will make a better record comparatively than 

 she has this year as a three-year-old. I witnessed the weighing of several 

 of the milkings, the churning and weighing of several days' butter product and 

 will state of my own knowledge that the weights in the following table are 

 correct and that the butter was well worked and of good odor and quality." 

 The table below shows the weights of milk and of butter, all of which are 

 attested to under oath, to comply with the rules, of Advanced Registry of the 

 Holstein-Friesian Association. 



Accompanying the above statement is affidavit of the manager of the dairy, 

 the herdsman and the man who did the milking. 



Gillett & Son, of Rosendale, Wis., reported December 1, 1889, in detail, 

 butter records recently made by three two-year-old heifers, Bessie Loeman, 

 Johanna Nig and Johanna 5th, whose seven days' production stands 11 Ibs. 1 

 oz., 11 Ibs. 3 oz., and 14 Ibs. 2 oz., respectively. 



Oct. 



7 



8 



9 

 10 

 11 

 12 

 13 



BESSIE LCEMAN. 



Lbs. 

 Milk. 



32.13 



32.3 1-2 



33.12 1-2 



32.5 



34.8 



34.14 



34.15 



Bessie Losman Total week's milk, 234.7. Butter, 11.1. Pounds of milk to one pound butter, 

 21 19-100. 



Johanna Nig Total week's milk, 238.12. Butter, 11.3. Pounds milk to one pound butter, 

 21 34-100. 



Johanna 5th Total week's milk, 284.9. Butter, 14.2. Pounds milk to one pound butter, 

 20 14-100. Oct. 1 and Sept. 30 rained, which reduced her milk a trifle. 



The ration fed these heifers was made up as follows : One-fifth corn meal, 

 ^ ground oats, | oil meal, and f wheat bran, with all the timothy hay they 

 would eat, and all the spring water they would drink. They were kept in 

 stables during the day, and allowed to run with the herd at night ; were milked 

 at 5.45 a. m., 12.30 and 7.30 p. m. Their milk was set in pans and skimmed 

 every 48 hours. The butter was churned at 62 degrees, washed, salted and 

 worked before weighing. 



We put no particular stress upon these records for great flow of milk, as 

 they were tested for butter, and good quality was desired rather than great 

 quantity ; hence we say, had we fed desirous of obtaining a great daily milk 

 record, we believe any one of these heifers would have increased in quantity 

 several pounds per day. 



We feel quite encouraged from the results of these tests, first, because all 

 these heifers were bred by us ; second, because Bessie Loeman and Johanna 5th 

 were sired by our bull Oakland Chief, and are the first of his daughters we 

 have ever tested ; and third, because we bred the sires of them all, and that the 

 average of the three of 12 Ibs. 2 oz. speaks for itself of the merits of these 

 youngsters as dairy cows. Johanna Nig was sired by a near descendant of the 

 great Billy Boelyn. 



