158 The Guernsey Breed 



of the executive committee owning animals competing in said tests 

 shall be barred from having any supervision of said test or tests. All 

 cows shall lie wholly under the control of the owner so far as feed- 

 ing and general treatment are concerned. 



"5. j'Vll the ex])enses connected with the tests shall be paid by 

 the contestants except those incurred by carrying out the provisions 

 contained in Rule 9. 



"6. Each year's test shall commence in November; the first test 

 commencing November 1, 1898. All animals competing shall be 

 named at least 30 days prior to the opening of each test. The results 

 of each test shall be reported to the annual meeting of the club, when 

 the prizes will be awarded. 



"7. At the end of each month every contestant shall report to 

 the iiffice of the clul) upon blanks furnished them for such purpose by 

 said office: 



"a. A complete record of the weights of each milking. 



"]). An approximate statement of the amount and kind of food 

 given the animals, and as to the manner of stabling and care of 

 same, including the dates of service or when in heat and not served. 



"8. About the middle of each month samples shall be taken of 

 the night's and following morning's milk and sent to the agricultural 

 experiment station of the state in which the animal is located', or to 

 such place as may be directed or approved by the executive commit- 

 tee, these samples to be properly labeled with the date and amount 

 of each milking, the result of such tests to be reported by the tester 

 til the oftice of the club. 



"9. At such times as the executive committee supervising said 

 test or tests shall see fit, but at least twice during the year, they 

 shall send anyone whom they may deputize to visit the herds from 

 which animals are entered, to weigh and test the milk from cows 

 competing. 



"10. The results of eacn years tests shall be computed in the 

 following manner: The weights of milk produced each month shall 

 1)e multiplied by the per cent of liuttcrfat as sliown by the official 

 test fur that month, and the sum of the results thus obtained shall be 

 the year's record." 



The work was started Nr)\'ember 1, 1898, and the three 

 lierds of EUerslie Stock b'arni, Rliinecliff, N. Y. ; Ezra Alich- 

 ener, Carvers\-ille, I'a.; and Geo. C. Hill & Son, Rosendale, 

 Wis., were entered; and James H. Bierne, of Oakfield, W'is.. 

 also entered two single cows. A summary of the results of 

 the first year's test is as follows, the herd of Mr. ]\lichener 

 l)ein<;' withdrawn during the }ear: 



Single Cows. 



D.ite Pounds Per cent Pounds 



Name of cow calved Ape milk fat fat 

 J. H. Bierne. Oakfield. Wis.— 



Lilv Ella ya.'iO 13-7-1,898 .S 12.282.68 6.421 732.16 



Lilyita 7241 12-7-1898 .S 12.812.73 5,691 710,5.1 



(;eo. C. Hill & Son, Rosendale, Wis.— 



Countess Bisliop 7869 3-20-1898 5 7,487.3 6.416 452.23 



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