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they- were to be given a standard grain ration. As a matter of 

 fact no owner failed to specify how he wanted his animals fed. 



5. Any owner might have his heifers milked as many times 

 during the day as he desired. As a matter of fact, all agreed 

 on three milkings per day, morning, noon and night. 



6. Samples of the milk from each milking were taken by 

 the Supervisor of the Test, Mr. C. H. White, a member of the 

 staff of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, ami 

 shipped to the Station. The determinations of fat percentage 

 were made by the Station chemists. The Supervisor of the Test 

 weighed the milk from each cow at each milking, took all 

 weights of feed, etc. The Test was officially under the direc- 

 tion and supervision of the present writer, Mr. White acting as 

 his agent. 



7. That heifer was adjudged the winner which produced hi 

 the 7 days the largest total number of pounds of butter fat 

 after proper correction for age and stage of lactation as set 

 forth above. That heifer was adjudged second in the Test 

 which produced the next largest total number of pounds of 

 butter fat after correction, and so on. 



ADDITIONAL SUGGESTIONS REGARDING METHODS OE CARRYING 

 OUT SIRES' FUTURITY TESTS. 



There are some points in the rules set forth in the preceding 

 section which possibly require further comment. One of the 

 first points needing consideration is in regard to the bringing of 

 the animals all to one place for testing. This regulation is 

 likely to be opposed: by the wealthy breeder who is doing ad- 

 vanced registry work. To him it is perfectly easy to arrange 

 for a 7-day test at any time in his own barn as a part of his 

 regular work, even the official tester in some cases being a 

 person already in his own employ. Under these circumstances 

 it would be much more convenient for such breeders to have a 

 Futurity Test conducted, so far as his own animals are con- 

 cerned, in his own barn. The situation is very different, how 

 ever, in regard to the small breeder in an outlying section of 

 the state, where no official tester is located near at hand. If a 

 plan of the sort mentioned were adopted it would mean that 

 the small breeder could never by any possibility compete, or 

 enter animals, because the expense of having a tester for his 



