CLOTHILDE 2D 9 S RECORD. 



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Clothilde 2d, at Lakeside Stock Farm, Syracuse, N. Y. , completed on Decem- 

 ber 18, 1889, a week's butter record of 30 Ibs. 8 oz., and it is thus reported by 

 Smiths & Powell Co., in January, 1890. Her butter was of fine quality. She 

 gave for the week 569 Ibs. 14 oz. of milk, which shows that she averaged 1 Ib. 

 of butter from 18.68 Ibs. of milk. This shows that quality and quantity can 

 be combined in the same cow. 



She was fed per day during the test, 19 Ibs. of grain feed, composed of one 

 part wheat bran, one part ground oats, one part corn meal, and one-eighth of 

 one part linseed meal. Of coarse feed she was fed 50 Ibs. corn ensilage, 22 Ibs. 

 of carrots and 3 Ibs. of hay. 



She dropped her last calf October 29, 1889, and up to time of commencing 

 test had very little grain feed. 



When the production of both milk and butter is considered, Clothilde 2d 

 now stands at the head. We know of no other cow with equal records of both 

 these products. 



This cow is now eight years old, and has averaged over 19,500 Ibs. of milk 

 per year, counting the whole time in milk, commencing in her two-year- 

 old form. 



As a four-year-old she gave 23,602 Ibs. 10 oz. of milk in a year. Last year, 

 after dropping her calf, she was given a butter test of thirty days, making 25 

 Ibs. 6 oz. in a week, and 104 Ibs. 3| oz. in thirty days. All grain feed was then 

 dropped, and during the summer she had only the pasture and soiling crops, and 

 during the winter only corn ensilage, hay and roots, until a few weeks before 

 the close of the year, when 6 Ibs. of grain per day was added to her ration. 

 With this feed she closed her year's milk record, at 20,487 Ibs. 13 oz. This 

 record, considering the feed consumed, has no equal. 



Next to this cow in the production of milk and butter, stands her dam, 

 Clothilde, with a milk record at six years of age, of 26,021 Ibs. 2 oz. in a year, 

 and a butter record of 28 Ibs. 2 oz. in a week. She averaged for the whole 

 time in milk during her life, commencing before she was two years old, 18,579 

 Ibs. per year. 



The butter records of Clothilde and her five daughters in Lakeside herd, 

 three of them tested at three years of age, average for the six head, 22 Ibs. 13 

 oz.. averaging for the whole number a pound of butter from 19. 54 Ibs. of milk. 



The whole number, although three of them were but three years old at the 

 time of making records, and one with only one-half an udder, averaged 16,065 

 Ibs. 6| oz. of milk in a year. 



The seven-day record was broken on June 17, 1890, by Parthenea. Mr. 

 E. T. Gay thus reports the test : The seven-day milk and butter record recently 

 made by Parthenea, 9592 H. H. B., a member of Maplewood herd, is, I believe, 

 the largest ever made for that period. 



Commencing June 11, her production was as follows : 



Average number pounds of milk per day 78 and 5 oz. 



Average number pounds butter per day, 5 and 8 1 14 oz. 



Average number pounds milk required for one pound of butter, 14.23. 



The butter was of very good grain and quality. 



Parthenea is six years old and dropped her last calf April 21, 1890, and on 

 May 15 we began increasing her feed. 



During the test she received on an average 27 Ibs. of ground feed, consist- 

 ing of oats, bran, linseed oil meal and corn. She was allowed to run in pasture 

 during the day with other members of the herd and kept in stall nights. 

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