PUBLIC COMPETITIONS, 1894. Ill 



sey is said to have been fed a ration similar to that given the second prize 

 cow. 



The usual breed test was held by the Illinois Agricultural State Society on 

 its grounds at Springfield in 1894. The Holsteins made records of 2.94 to 2.52 

 Ibs. of butter fat in the two days as compared with 3.17 Ibs. of the Jersey and 

 3.07 Ibs. by the Ayrshire. A Holstein under three years of age made 1.74 Ibs. 

 and 1 29 Ibs. of butter fat. 



A two days' butter test at the Indiana State Fair of 1894 was won by Hol- 

 stein-Friesian cow, Nahe 2d, with a yield of 3.1061 Ibs. of butter fat, which is 

 equivalent to 2.88 Ibs. of commercial butter. A Jersey cow was second with a 

 yield of 2.9063 Ibs. of butter fat, which is equivalent to 3.63 Ibs. of commercial 

 butter. Nine animals competed in the test, including three Holstein-Friesians, 

 one Guernsey and four Jerseys, The Guernsey yield was 1.5195, and the Ayr- 

 shire 1.5044 Ibs. of butter fat. 



The Ohio dairy test of 1894 was open to competitors from the middle of 

 January to the 30th of August. The test was made under the abnormal con- 

 ditions of feeding dry feed and contending with the worst pest of flies that 

 Ohio had experienced for a series of years. Three animals were entered, two 

 Holstein-Friesians and one Jersey. The Holsteins were tested in July, during 

 the very warmest and dryest weather of the season, the Jersey under conditions 

 equally as dry, but with lower temperature exsisting and with less annoyance 

 from flies. The first premium for the largest yield of fat in twenty-four hours 

 was awarded to the Jersey cow upon a yield of 2.06 Ibs. of fat ; the second to 

 the Holstein-Friesian Peterina 2d, upon a yield of 1.66 Ibs. of fat. 



The first premium for the largest yield of solids not including fat from 

 twenty-four hours milk was awarded to the Holstein-Friesian Hilton Maid 2d, 

 on a yield of 5.05 Ibs. The second premium to Peterina 2d, on a yield of 4.83. 

 This test, like that of 1892 and 1893, was conducted at the home of the cow, 

 at the season and time most suitable to her owner, and under the same rules as 

 in 1892 and 1893. The representative of the Ohio Experiment Station in each 

 case saw the cow milked out clean, and was present at the morning and even- 

 ing milkings of the following day to see the animal milked and to weigh and 

 sample the milk, the analysis being made at the Station on the following day. 

 At the Iowa State Fair of 1894, the prizes offered were $70 to the first, $40 

 to the second, and $20 to the third, for a three days' test for butter fat, as indi- 

 cated by testing the samples of the milk of each milking by the Babcock 

 method as the basis of awards. The kinds and quantities of food supplied to the 

 cows was part of the requirements, otherwise the owners had the care and con- 

 trol of their cows. Six cows were entered, and one withdrew after the first 

 milking. There were three Jerseys and two Holsteins. 



The first and second prizes were won by Jerseys Eurodra and Beula 

 Shawhan, with a milk yield of 120.37 Ibs. and 120.97 Ibs., showing yields of 

 butter fat of 4.84 and 4.77. The margin between these two was so narrow that 

 the committee decided to divide the first and second money equally between 

 them. 



The third prize went to the Holstein-Friesian cow Bontje P. 2d's Gerben 

 whose milk record was 133.86 Ibs., showing a total of 4.62 Ibs. butter fat. The 

 Holstein-Friesian cow Harmetka's Gerben was fourth in the list with a yield of 

 113.01 Ibs. of milk, showing 3.49 Ibs. of butter fat. 



The remarkable thing about this test is the yield of the milk of the Jersey, 

 which is the largest we have ever seen recorded in a public test. The grain 

 ration fed to the Holstein-Friesian cattle was eight and nine quarts each daily. 

 The winning Jersey consumed nine quarts per day, and the second prize Jersey 

 had a ration varing from eight to nine and three-quarters pounds per day. 



Nothing is said about the weight of these cattle but it is true they were 

 very large Jersey cows. The difference between the yield of the winning cow 

 and the Holstein which took third was .15 of a pound. 



Prof. H. H. Dean conducted the test at the Provincial Dairy Show, Ganan- 

 oque, Ontario, in 1894, of sixty hours duration. Nineteen aged cows were 

 entered, and five three -year-olds. Of these four were Jerseys, two Guernseys, 

 five were Ayrshires. one described as a grade, and six were Holstein-Friesians. 

 Of the three-year-olds, two were Holsteins and three were Ayrshires. 



The cows were judged according to the product only, as per the following 

 scale : One point for each pound of milk, twenty points for each pound of but- 

 ter fat, four for each pound of other solids, and one point for each ten days in 



