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from July 18, 1892, to July 10, 1893, a total of 11,008 pounds of 

 milk ; while for four years, from August i, 1890, to July 31, 1894, 

 she produced 43,1 18;^ pounds of milk, or a daily average of about 

 25 pounds. The London Live Stock Joiaiialm 1898 published the 

 milk record of a Red Polled cow of 13,126 pounds in three hun- 

 dred and forty-seven days, an average of 37.82 pounds daily. This 

 same journal also reports on the Red Polled cow Hester, that from 

 October, 1890, to October, 1904, produced the remarkable yield of 

 84,177 pounds of milk, an average yield for fourteen years of 

 6012 pounds per year. Hester was also a very successful show 

 cow in England. Among the more prominent herds in America 

 is that of Jean Du Luth Farms, in Minnesota, where official testing 

 has been in progress for some years. In 191 3 twenty-four cows 

 in the herd averaged for the year 7645.7 pounds of milk, and in 

 1914 a herd of the same size averaged 981 8.1 pounds. The 

 largest annual milk record of a Red Polled cow to January, 191 8, 

 is that of Jean Du Luth Beauty, producing 20,280.6 pounds, a 

 wonderful showing. Jean Du Luth Pear in two years produced 

 30,136.8 pounds of milk. The cow Pear has the most remarkable 

 record, having in seven consecutive years produced 67,548.6 

 pounds of milk, a yearly average of 9649.8 pounds. In 191 8 

 the same cow had seven living daughters and one son in the 

 herd where she is owned. 



Red Polled cattle as butter producers stand very well. Their 

 milk tests about 3.8 per cent fat, although many cases show even 

 better. The average of Mayflower for four years by Babcock test 

 is 4.35 per cent butter fat. At the Pan-American Exposition the 

 five Red Polled cows produced in six months 1319.45 pounds 

 churned butter valued at ^329.86, with Mayflower 2d second in 

 the butter-fat test. In this test the average butter-fat content was 

 3.98 per cent. In the Jean Du Luth herd the average annual 

 yield of butter fat per cow in 1908 was 259 pounds; in 1909, 

 257.8 pounds; in 1910, 264.9 pounds; in 1912, 268 pounds; in 

 1913, 316.27 pounds; and in 1914, 403-5 pounds. The leading 

 record in butter fat for a Red Polled aged cow is that of 31725 

 Jean Du Luth Beauty, of 891.55 pounds of fat. The cow 31787 

 Jean Du Luth Dorothy, in four-year form, produced 571-4 pounds 

 fat, while the two-year-old heifer 34870 Jean Du Luth Lady 



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