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deal was said in most of the dairy papers about the wonderful 

 cows, " Merry Maiden " and " Brown Bess." I presume dairy- 

 men are as familiar with these names as some of the horsemen 

 are with Joe Patchen and other fast trotters. That stimulated 

 making- dairy records, and the results obtained at Chicago were 

 absolutely fair and honest results. 



When the St. Louis exposition was talked of one of the 

 features that was talked of early in the arrangements for this 

 exposition was to have some sort of dairy cow test. A dairy 

 cow test seems to be essential for an American world's fair and 

 I presume every fair in the future will have some test of this 

 sort. 



At the Chicago exposition you will remember, probably, 

 that the value of the milk that was produced by the cows was 

 determined not only by analysis and by the Babcock test and 

 lactometer, which showed percent of fat and solids not fat in the 

 milk, but the milk from each breed was taken to the dairy build- 

 ing, skimmed and made into butter in the butter test. The but- 

 ter was scored and award was given to cows not only on total 

 production ^but on quality of butter that was made. That is, 

 butter having a certain score was valued at certain price and 

 butter of another score at a different price. The value of such a 

 record as that depends, as you dairymen all know, a great deal 

 on the buttermaker, the man who handles the milk and the cream ; 

 the cows are not responsible to a great extent for the quality of 

 the butter she makes. 



This dairy cow demonstration, as it was called, at St. Louis, 

 was one step in advance of the Chicago test in that direction. It 

 was hard to get the different breeders or persons interested in 

 different breeds of cows to agree on a certain set of rules and 

 regulations to govern these tests. At the time of the Chicago 

 world's fair it was necessary, in order to get men handling differ- 

 ent breeds of cows, to have the award based somewhat on quality 

 and quantity of butter. This dairy cow demonstration at St. 

 Louis marks an advance over that period, as it has been demon- 

 strated since that time that the capacity of a cow should be judged 



