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panying illustrations are of the best Jersey (Xoretta D.) and the best 

 Holstein (Shadybrook Gerben), at the Exposition, and of Yeksa Sun- 

 beam (Guernsey), and Pansy of Woodroffe (Ayrshire). 



A Wisconsin Guernsey. — Mr. Rietbrock's Yeksa Sunbeam (Plate 

 I, Fig. 45) heads the list of officially tested cows. Her record for 

 twelve consecutive months is 14,920.8 lbs. milk, and 857.15 lbs. fat, 

 and is as follows : 



Month. Milk. 



October 1428 . 2 



November 1322.5 



December 1294.4 



January '05 1217.0 



February 1060.8 



March 1185.1 



April 1089.6 



May 1127.5 



June 1158.4 



July 1266. o 



August 1463.8 



September 1307.5 



Yeksa Sunbeam, having given 14920.8 lbs. of milk, containing 

 857.15 lbs. fat, it follows that the average per cent, of fat in her milk 

 -was 5.744. Applying the Farrington scale to this quality of milk, 

 we find that 100 lbs. of fat should yield 118%" lbs. of butter, 

 and consequently the 857.15 lbs. of fat would make 1013.56 lbs. o£ 

 butter. 



Yeksa Sunbeam was 9^ years old at the commencement of the 

 test. She was bred and reared by the late W. D. Richardson, at 

 Garden City, Minn., and sold when a heifer to a milkman near Minne- 

 apolis, from whom she was purchased by Mr. Rietbrock. Her sire 

 was Yeksa's Prince, a son of the cow, Yeksa, formerly owned by Mr. 

 I. J. Clapp, Kenosha, Wis., and her dam was The Sunbeam, also 

 formerly owned in Wisconsin by Prof. Haecker, before he went to 

 Minnesota. There is, therefore, some poetic justice in her return to 

 Wisconsin to make her phenomenal record. 



In respect of feeding, I would say that during grazing season, the 

 pastures of clover and blue grass were very good. We supplemented 



