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the next largest 2 Ibs. 9 oz. Prize for the best quality of butter in this test was 

 awarded a Holstein cow named Katinka. Amount of the prize was $35.00. 



At the Minnesota State fair in 1888 an official test was made of twenty-four 

 Ifours for dairy cows, which resulted in giving the first and third premiums to 

 Holstein-Friesian cows and the second prize to a Jersey. The first prize was 

 won by Lena Twisk, whose milk yield was 54 Ibs. 12 oz.; butter, 2.16 Ibs. The 

 yield of the Jersey cow was 38 Ibs. 8 oz. of milk and 1.85 Ibs. butter. Third 

 prize to Almee was on a record of 38 Ibs. 4J- oz. of milk and a yield of 1.26 Ibs. of 

 butter. In this test fourteen head competed, including four Jerseys, one Guern- 

 sey and nine Holsteins. Professor Short's oil test was used. 



At the Iowa State Fair of 1888 the State Dairy Commissioner, Hon. D. H. 

 Sherman, conducted a comparative test for the best butter cow. The period 

 was a single day, three Jerseys were entered and four Holsteins. First prize 

 was awarded to the Holstein cow Bettina on a yield of 1.90 Ibs. of butter. The 

 second to the Holstein cow Rijaneta, who made 1.49 Ibs. butter, and the third 

 to a Jersey whose yield was 1.42 Ibs. butter. Professor Short's method was used 

 under Mr. Sherman's supervision. 



DE KOL 2D, No. 734 H. F. H. B.; 412 ADVANCED REGISTRY. 



Butter record, 33 Ibs. 6oz. in seven days; largest one day's record, 6 Ibs. 6 1-2 oz. Milk record 

 73 Ibs. in one day; 1,843 Ibs. 4 oz. in thirty days. 



At the Bay State Fair held in 1889 sweepstakes prizes were offered for the 

 best milch cow of any age or breed, and the best butter cow. Three entries 

 were finally made in each test, including one Ayrshire, one Jersey and four 

 Holsteins. We extract the following from Mr. James Cheeseman's official report: 



The competition for the best milch cow promised to be of more than com- 

 mon interest, but on Saturday evening when the time arrived for stripping the 

 cows preparatory to the two milkings of Sunday, from which the test for milk 

 and butter were to be taken, eleven out of the seventeen entered were with- 

 drawn. The milk from the six cows was sampled morning and evening for 

 analysis, and the whole of the milk of the Jersey cow and the two Holsteins was 

 separated twice to exhaust the butter fat. The morning and evening's cream 

 obtained from each cow's milk were mixed and ripened at 68 degrees until 2 

 o'clock on Monday. The creams were churned with a weak brine at a temper- 

 ature of 62 degrees and the following butters were obtained: Queen of the Hill, 

 Holstein, gross, 25 oz., net fat, 17.90 oz.; Delia Carr, Jersey, gross, 21.5 oz., net 

 fat, 17.50 oz.; Mink, Holstein, gross, 14.5 oz., net fat, 11.22 oz. 



