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The butter of the Holsteins was calculated by the rule established at Chi- 

 cago of 80 per cent fat. Eighty pounds of skim-milk in the Holstein test are 

 credited to every 100 pounds whole milk, and the skim figured at twenty cents 

 per 100 pounds; and the fact that the tests were personally and directly super- 

 vised by representatives of different experiment stations or state institutions 

 of the state from which the cows were entered establishes the absolute accu- 

 racy of these tests by the highest authority. 



In the Chicago test the cows were credited four and one-half cents per 

 pound for every pound increase in live weight, which factor is not taken into 

 account in the Holstein test; and another point of no little importance is that 

 the Jerseys were, in the language of the chairman of the testing committee, 

 "watched over with the greatest care, and handled with the most wonderful 

 skill," and the Holsteins received their ordinary care by herdsmen, many of 

 them comparatively unskilled. 



The total seven days' milk of the twenty-five Holstein' cows was 11,242.63 

 Ibs., an average of 64.24 Ibs. per day. The average milk per Jersey cow per day 

 for the first week of the ninety days' test at Chicago was 36.6, which is 

 exceeded by the Holsteins by 29.64 Ibs. per cow per day. 



The total week's butter of the twenty-five Holsteins is 496.83 Ibs., an aver- 

 age of 19.87 Ibs. per week, or 2.83 Ibs. per cow per day. The average amount 

 of butter produced by the Jerseys in the ninety days' test was 170 96 Ibs., or 1.89 

 Ibs. per cow per day, which is exceeded by the Holsteins by .93 Ibs. per cow 

 per day. 



The food cost of one pound of butter for the Holsteins was 10.33 cents and 

 that of the Jerseys 13.75 cents per pound, from which it will be seen that the 

 Holsteins produced a pound of butter by over three cents cheaper per pound 

 than did the Jerseys. 



The highest net profit per day of any cow in the ninety days' test was that 

 of Brown Bessie, of eighty-one cents. The average net profit per day of the 

 entire twenty-five Holsteins was ninety-four cents per cow, and coming down 

 to a practical and reasonable basis of twenty-five cents per pound, we find the 

 average net earning of the entire number of Holsteins to be fifty-one cents per 

 day, which is conclusive evidence that the Holstein cow can yield a handsome 

 profit, and is not an expensive cow for the dairyman of this country to keep. 



The highest week's yield in butter during the ninety days' test was that of 

 Brown Bessie of 20.163 pounds, which is exceeded by twelve of the twenty-five 

 Holstein cows, and of these one cow was three years old, and four were only 

 four years old. 



The best day's production of butter of any cow in the ninety days' test was 

 that of Brown Bessie of 3.48 pounds. The best twenty-four hours' yield of any 

 Holstein was that of De Kpl 2d of 4.308 pounds. 



During the World's Fair test only eight times was a yield made of upward 

 of three pounds of butter in a day, and in the Holstein tests ten of the twenty- 

 five cows average over three pounds per day for the entire week. 



It has often been hurled at us that our breeders dared not enter into the 

 Columbian dairy test to compete with other daiiy breeds where cost of produc- 

 tion was to be taken into consideration; for my own satisfaction I have made 

 careful analyses of both tests, taking into consideration every point that would 

 give each breed justice and fair play, and have made my calculations from facts. 



I think the advantage of the Holsteins being tested at home, though per- 

 haps not entirely, is in a measure offset by some points which favor the Jerseys; 

 viz., scientific feeding, a longer time tested, and a better representation of the 

 highest producing cows of the breed. Anyway, from the conditions under 

 which both breeds were tested, whether on an equal basis or not, I find the 

 Holsteins produced more milk, made more butter per cow and at a less cost than 

 did any of the breeds in the World's Fair test, and this by a very strong lead; so 

 strong that any one examining the above table must concede that the Holsteins 

 produce milk and butter profitably, and the facts here set forth hardly warrant 

 the comments which have been made by thoughtless people and owners of rival 

 breeds for not entering our breed in the World's Fair dairy test. 



We also present a copy of the awards made by the Holstein-Friesian Asso- 

 ciation of America in 1895 and 1896, in tabulated form, a study of which will 

 repay the seeker for truth as to the abilities of the Holstein-Friesian cow as a 

 butter producer. 



