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best cow for milk and which was the best dual purpose cow, 

 taking" into consideration the milk and beef points and the calf 

 of the dual-pm pose cow. 



The regulations w ere discussed for nearly a year before the;, 

 agreed on a set that everyone was willing to bring cows on and 

 have them entered and take part in such a test. A great many 

 meetings were held by persons interested in these tests, and of 

 course a great difference of opinion was expressed, but they 

 finally got a set of rules and regulations to which they would 

 all agree. 



The weighing of the milk of each cow and of the feed given 

 her was commenced officially on June 15, and that was kept up 

 until October 13, a period of 120 days, when the cows were in 

 tli is race. You have all heard of a horse race, but in a race of 



s< rt no account whatever is taken of the value of the feed 

 the horse eats. That is one way in which these cow races, if you 

 may call them that, go the horses one better. It is an economical 



tion, and the value of the feed the cow receives is taken into 

 -j .^{deration as well as the weight of her milk, and its test. 



In order to go into details of the work and have it properly 

 arranged, it was necessary to have thirty men connected with 

 se cows in the different parts of this work. 



The cattle associations selected the cows of the breed they 

 represented and placed a man as superintendent in charge of 

 them. The superintendent secured men of his own selection who 

 milked, fed and cared for the cows under his direction No 

 restrictions in regard to the amount or kind of feeds given the 

 cows were placed on these superintendents, but every pound of 

 feed was weighed and charged to each cow daily. These weights 

 of feed as well as the weights of milk at each milking were 

 recorded on blanks provided for the purpose by men employed 

 by the exposition who were stationed in each barn during the 

 entire day. In addition to the two recording clerks, a Jefferson 

 guard was detailed to each barn, he being on duty day and night. 



The feed provided by the breed superintendents was stored 

 in the various barns in a feed room which was locked and the 



