The Guernsey Buiced 



Table VII — Average Cost of Food per Pound of Fat. 



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^ Q £ H ^ d: s f^-i 3 1 £5 3? B'i II 



A\rshire .. 1,510 J9.845 19.76 3.69 1,101.3 73 $226 71 1 S Oc 20 6c 



Guernsey .. 1,559 29,785 19.10 5.0'' 1,516.0 0.97 234 63 14 9c 15 3c 



Holstein-Fr'n 1,045 25,366 24.27 3.55 900.5 0.86 202,12 19 3c 22 4c 



Jersey 1.251 23.085 18.45 4.S'' 1,128 8 0.90 201. 99 16 Ic 17 9c 



Shortliorn . . 1,604 19.56 19.56 3.70 1,188.9 1.74 247.76 15 4c 20.8c 



It was very unfortunate that the New Jersey station lost 

 tins herd of cattle by fire so that the experiment could not 

 he continued. 



At a]:)Out the same time, the station h-cated at (_iencva. 

 X. ^^. un(lert<i(.k similar work, except that they started with 

 lieifers instead of \\-ith cows, and the^^ too, were unfnrtimate 

 in that disease nearly ruined many oi the cows. I'r(.hal:)ly 

 because <.)f this discoura^x-ment and also t^ecause there was so 

 little \'alue in a test 'uf breeds A\diere so few in.di\-iduals were 

 cncerned, they discontinued the wnrk. 



The follc)wino- table and the ta])lc on iiag'e ISh are taken 

 from the report of that station for 1X04; 



Table Showing Cost of One Pound of Eutterfat. 



Breetl Name of cow 



American Holderness . Maggie 6t]i . 



American Holrlerncs,"; . Nora 16,46 



Ayrshire Manton Belle 



Ayrshire Junietta 



Ayrshire Miss Flow 5th , 



Ayrshire (Jucen Duchess 



Devon Artalia 



Devon Genevia's Gift 



Devon Tone 



Guernsey Madame Select 



Guernsey Oriole 



Guernsey Rosette Ford . 



Guernsey Stella Select 19.70 



Holstein-Friesian .... Beauty Pledge 



Holstein-Friesian .... Esel 2d 1870 



Holstein-Friesian. . . . Netherland Con- 

 stance 



Holstein-Friesian. . . . Ruth 



Jersey Albert's Carol 



Jersey Barbara Allen 



Jersey Countess Flavia 



Jersey Gilderbloom 18.22 



Shorthorn Betsy 10th 20.511 



It will be notefl that one rriicrnsey and one Holstein- 

 Friesian heifer were added the second year, that this added 



heifer was the only Holstein to make more than one year's 

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