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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



JERSEY COW, NICOLETTE, No. 6599: 



8 pounds per day. Milk test, 

 Butter record, 77-day test, 1.46 



Milk record, 77-day test, 

 77-day period, 6.93 per cent, 

 pounds per day. 



This other cow Nicolette gives a not very heavy flow of milk, 

 iDut is an exceedingly rich milker, the test averaged during the 

 J J days 6.93 butter fat, and she produced practically one and a' 

 half pounds of butter, but not for a great length of time. A 

 few years ago, at the Experiment Station in Pennsylvania, it 

 was found that there was great variation in that respect, and 

 that it is not always the cow that is making the record for the 

 larger amount of rich milk that is producing at the greater 

 profit, or, in other words, that is the more economical dairy 

 cow. 



We have in our dairy herd now about thirty cows in milk, 

 of five different breeds. It is our practice to weigh all 

 feed daily from one year's end to the other and charge it 



