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have come these very high-class records. Mr. George Taylor, long 

 noted as a breeder of milking Shorthorns in England, stated ^ that 

 when he first started keeping the milk records his herd average 

 was not 600 gallons 2 annually. " Now it exceeds 800 gallons, and 

 I rarely keep a cow that does not yield 700 gallons per year." 

 Late in 191 8 the statement was published in England that the cow 



Fig. 96. White Queen, an imported dairy Shorthorn cow, bought by C. A. Otis, 



Willoughby, Ohio, for ^$3000. She has a milk record of 10,430 pounds for one 



year. From photograph by Hildebrand, by courtesy of Mr. Otis 



Waterloo Baroness 2d, calved in 1908 and bred by Mr. Taylor, 

 had produced 62,601 pounds of milk and 6 calves in six years. 



Important butter-fat records of Shorthorn cows are naturally 

 associated with large milk production, but many of the milk 

 records have not involved fat tests. The world's record in butter- 

 fat production for a Shorthorn cow is reported late in 1917.^ 



^ Live Stock Journal (London), December 31, 1909. 



''' The English gallon is equal to ten pounds. 



8 Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, December 3, 1917. 



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