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breeds ; more notably the Jerseys and Holsteins have 

 made records in the production of milk and butter that 

 entitle them to places in the front rank of dairy breeds. 

 To illustrate more clearly I will cite several instances : 



Mary Ann of St. Lamberts, a Jersey cow owned by 

 Yallency E. Fuller, of Ontario, made in one year 870 

 pounds of butter. Jersey Queen, a cow owned by A. 

 B. Darling, proprietor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New 

 York City, produced 851 pounds of butter in one year. 

 Princess 2nd, owned by Mrs. Shoemaker, of Baltimore, 

 produced 46 pounds 12J ounces of butter in one week. 

 I know that many will be inclined to doubt the accur- 

 acy of this assertion that any cow ever made 46 pounds 

 of butter in one week, but the test was made under the 

 supervision of gentlemen appointed by the President 

 of the A. J. C. C. They were all sworn and made affi- 

 davit to the correctness of this report. Among the 

 notable examples of the enormous milk productions is 

 Clothilde, a Holstein cow whose produce in milk 

 exceeded 100 pounds per day, owned by Smith, Powels 

 & Lamb, N". Y., and the cow Mercedes, now dead, for- 

 merly owned by Thos. B. Wales, of Iowa City, yielded 

 nearly as much. 



fc A test of Bissons Belle, a Cattle Club Jersey cow owned 

 by a Tennessee gentleman, shows a record of 8412 

 pounds and 7 ounces of milk, which yielded 1028 pounds 

 and 15-f ounces of butter; such results are marvelous, and 

 ought to convince the most skeptical of the merits of 

 breed. Yet we are aware that very many dairymen 

 will characterize such statements as false without mak- 

 ing any attempt whatever to test the matter and ascer- 

 tain the correctness of the assertions. 



These are, perhaps, exceptional cases, but by prac- 

 tical tests that are being made by thinking dairymen 



