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the following scale of points, viz.: one point for each pound of milk in twenty- 

 four hours (two milkings) , twenty points for each pound of fat in the milk as 

 determined by analysis, four points for each pound of other solids, and one 

 point for each ten days since calving. I have before me the London Live Stock 

 Journal's report for the years of 1887 to 1890, inclusive. No test was held in 

 1891 and that for this year is not yet received. In these four years 182 cows 

 were tested, chiefly Shorthorns, Jerseys and Guernseys. The best score made by 

 a Shorthorn was 136 points ; best Jersey score, 117.2 ; best Guernsey, 108.1. 



"The scores made in the Ohio test, according to the same scale, would be 

 as follows: Lady of Lyons 4th, 142.34; Mayflower, 101.97; Tina, 95.5; Lady 

 of Tillershall, 94.52 ; Linda, 93.29 ; Coronet, 86.38. Of these the first is a Hol- 

 stein-Friesian, the others Red Polls. 



"It will be noticed that Lady of Lyons' score exceeds that of any cow of 

 any breed tested at the London Show. Of the sixty odd Jerseys tested in the 

 four years named but one reached a score of 100 points. That was the great 

 Jersey cow, Baron's Progress the world's champion of the breed for butter. 

 The average of the ten prize Jerseys in these years the pick of over sixty 

 tested is 93.33 points ; the average of the ten prize Guernseys is 89.99 points ; 

 the average of the five Eed Polls in the Ohio test is 94.33. . 



DE VKIES, No. 5433 H. H. B. 



Milk record, 95 1-2 Ibs. in one day; 2,404 Ibs. in thirty days. 



thirty days. 



Butter record, 121 Ibs. 12 oz. in 



"The Red Polls, it will be remembered, are strictly general-purpose cows 

 milk and beef combined. And yet we are told by our so-called dairy authorities, 

 that in selecting dairy cows we should, of all things, avoid any tendency to beef ; 

 and some of our experiment stations are sending out men to preach this doctrine 

 as ' science ' ! It is pure ' rot,' wholly unsupported by any established facts. I 

 begin to think a dairy cow may be of almost any form. Certainly the public 

 records do not sustain the claim that thoe of a form and capacity to lay on 

 flesh fall behind. And the best dairy cow I ever saw the best the world has 

 ever seen, according to the public records the Brown Swiss cow Brienz is as 

 far removed from the so-called dairy type as it is possible to conceive." 



There were but few public tests in 1893. All were saving up their forces 

 for the Columbian Exposition. There was a test at the Kansas City Interstate 

 Fair, and the report shows a Holstein victory. The leading cow was Parana 

 Abbekerk, whose yield was 38 Ibs. 12| oz. of milk, showing 3.45 per cent fat. 

 She was followed by Maryke 3d's Gerben, whose yield of 39 Ibs. 10| oz. of milk 



