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8 ounces of butter was made in seven days from her milk. The 

 same year the cow Rose 240 yielded 17 pounds in seven days. 

 From this time thousands of seven-day tests have been made of 

 Jersey cows, showing records ranging from 14 pounds of churned, 

 salted, and worked butter, up to that of Princess 2d 8046, reported 

 in 1885 to have made an officialtest of 46 pounds 12I- ounces in 

 one week. The testing of Jerseys for butter production became so 

 extensive that Major Campbell Brown of Tennessee and others 

 collated and published two volumes of such tests, and later, in 

 1890, the American Jersey Cattle Club took up this work officially. 

 Several thousand records have been published in book form by 

 the club. Many of these records were so high as to cause sus- 

 picion of the integrity of the testing, which finally resulted in the 

 club's providing for butter-fat tests as well as churn tests, to be 

 supervised by experiment-station or agricultural-college officials. 

 However, between 1879 and 1892 a number of remarkable 

 records were claimed of yearly butter production in private tests. 

 The following six cows attained great fame in this connection : 



Since 1893, when the Jersey breed took official part in the 

 dairy breed competition at the World's Columbian Exposition 

 and disinterested persons supervised the tests, such large private 

 tests have not been reported. Unquestionably many Jersey cows 

 will yield from 14 to 17 pounds of butter in a week, while a few 

 may pass 20 pounds. The best record made in a week at the 

 Columbian was by the cow Brown Bessie 74997 of 20.163 pounds ; 

 in thirty consecutive days her yield was 77.319 pounds. In the 

 Columbian Exposition tests the Jersey excelled both Guernsey 

 and Shorthorn in butter-fat production. At the Pan-American 

 Exposition in 1901 the Jersey stood second among ten breeds in 

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