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showed 3.375 per cent butter fat. The third cow in the test was a Jersey, with 

 a yield of 24 Ibs. 12 oz. of milk, showing 4.135 per cent fat. The fourth cow 

 was also a Jersey, whose 15 Ibs. 14 oz. of milk showed 5.145 per cent fat. The 

 Babcock test was also used as a check on one milking, the result being that 

 the chemical test showed a higher per cent fat. It is to be noted that these 

 Holsteins were all three-year-old heifers. 



Four Holstein cows were entered in the milk and butter test at the Kansas 

 State Fair at Topeka in 1893. Several Jerseys were entered in this test, but 

 they failed to show up at the milking time, and the prizes were left to the Hoi- 

 steins, Netherland Curran taking first, with a yield of 39 Ibs. of milk, averag- 

 ing 4.1 per cent butter fat, and showing 2 Ibs. of butter; Princess Pel's 

 Mechtchilde second, with a yield of 40 Ibs. of milk of the average per cent of 

 3.19 fat, showing 1 Ib. 9 oz. of butter. Shadybrook Sylvia, a Holstein heifer 

 twenty-two months old, and in milk since April of that year, showed 1 Ib. 2f 

 oz. of butter in the test. 



The Iowa State Agricultural Society held a dairy cow test at its state fair 

 of 1893. The Jerseys took third place, the Holsteins first and second. The first 

 prize cow was Marj^ke 3d's Gerben, who, from a milk yield of 51.237 Ibs., made 

 1.G28 Ibs. of fat, equivalent to 2.034 of 80 per cent butter. She was followed 

 by Empress Josephine 3d's Gerben with a milk yield of 48.562 Ibs., showing 1.6 

 Ibs. of fat, equivalent to 2 Ibs. of 80 per cent butter. The Jersey yield was 

 .891 Ibs. of fat, equivalent to 1.114 Ibs. of 80 per cent butter. 



In 1893 there was a two days' test of milch cows at the Nebraska State Fair. 

 The Holsteins won all the prizes. The awards were made on the value of the 

 milk for dairy purposes, the fat being counted at 25 cents per pound, and the 

 skim-milk 15 cents per hundred. On this basis, the two days' product of 

 Empress Josephine 3d of 106.11 Ibs. and 3.30 butter fat reached 98 cents in 

 value, and she was awarded first premium. The second prize went to Geertje 

 Seffinga, whose yield of milk was 92.23 and 2.67 fat, valued at 80 cents. The 

 Shorthorn cow in this test made a showing of 1.56 fat. A detailed report of 

 this test is found in the proceedings of the Nebraska Dairymen's Association 

 of 1893. 



At the test of the California State Fair of 1894 there were eleven entries. 

 The test lasted three days, and the average test made of the butter fat in the 

 three days' milk shows that the highest record was by a Jersey cow. whose 

 milk yield was 116.75 Ibs., showing 6.74 per cent fat, with a total of 7.879 Ibs. 

 butter fat. The largest Holstein yield was by Rebecca Egmond 3d, whose yield 

 of milk was 127.36 Ibs., with an average percentage of 3.2 fat, showing total 

 butter yield of 4.076 Ibs. of butter fat. In this test the conditions were hard to 

 contend with. It is always so when a cow giving milk of an average per cent 

 fat of 6.74 is found. Such cows are usually ranked with "hen's teeth," they 

 say in Vermont. 



However, some good evidence is found in this test. Butter Witch, a two- 

 year-old Holstein, made 2.13 Ibs. of butter, and showed 3.78 per cent average 

 fat. Korvortje 3d, another Holstein, made 3.876 Ibs. of fat from milk showing 

 2.96 per cent. Competition in the California test is classed by ages. 



Wisconsin State Fair dairy test of 1894 was made at home, the conditions 

 being that the four winning cows should be exhibited at the fair. Breeders 

 were obliged to make entry by May 20, and had the privilege of selecting the 

 first ten days of June, July, and August or September for the test of their cows. 

 Twenty-one cows were entered by the specified time, and included Red Polled, 

 Shorthorn, Jersey and Holstein-Friesian. In September the test narrowed 

 down to twelve animals, and the first premium of $100 was awarded to the 

 Holstein cow Johanna 5th, on a butter fat record of 5 Ibs. in two days. The 

 second premium went to a grade Jersey and Ayrshire, on a record of 4.84 Ibs. 

 of fat; and the third premium went to the Holstein Schoone, whose record was 

 4.17 Ibs. of fat. The fourth premium went to a Jersey on a record of 4.03 Ibs. 

 of butter fat. 



Johanna 5th was fed 22 Ibs. of grain daily, consisting of four pounds old 

 process oil meal, and eighteen pounds of a mixture, equal parts by measure, of 

 bran, oats and corn, ground together. The second prize cow was fed one quart 

 of oil meal, barley, oats and pea meal, and two quarts of shorts six quarts in 

 all, night and morning, and four quarts of oats and bran, equal parts, at noon. 

 Schoone, in addition to green cornstalks and hay, received eight pounds of 

 wheat bran and two pounds of hominy meal each day. The fourth prize Jer- 



