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for watering his cows. The average number of hours of man 

 labor employed per cow by the 22 farms is 1491/2- 



Of course, some of the others have milking machines 

 too, but Mr. Adams' number of hours of labor per cow was 

 137, which is 12 hours less per cow than the average. — 

 Geo. W. Kelley, Editor Northwest Farmstead. 



Bremer County Leads Iowa. 



E. J. Wylam & Son, Plainfield, set a state record for 

 Cow Testing Association herds when his Holstein-Friesians 

 averaged 13,014 pounds of milk and 458.53 pounds of but- 

 terfat, breaking both milk and fat records. The Wylam 

 herd is milked by a machine. The next highest herd in the 

 cow testing work in Bremer County was Chester & Sons,' 

 also near Plainfield, which produced 11,961 pounds of milk 

 that yielded 458.38 pounds of butterfat. The Chester herd 

 has not only been milked by machine for the past ^ve years, 

 but the farm is all modernly equipped for the most efficient 

 production that will save time and labor in field work as 

 well as barnyard chores. A tractor speeds up the field work 

 as well as does the belt work like feed grinding, silo filling, 

 etc. 



The third highest herd is also an example of efficient 

 management that has installed the latest time and labor 

 savers for cutting milk production overhead. Silos, drink- 

 ing cups in front of the cows, sanitary steel stanchions and 

 litter carriers, manure spreaders, etc., make milking a com- 

 fortable chore that pays bigger and bigger dividends as 

 production per cow rises to a point two and three times 

 what the average cow of the U. S. and Iowa produces. 



*'While one of the smallest counties in Iowa, we have 

 23 creameries and a new $300,000 condensery erected by 

 the Carnation people," says County Agent Offringa. 'To 

 put our county on a cow testing basis equal to Holland, 

 where I spent the first 19 years of my life, would require 

 dozens of more associations. We are only started nicely, 

 and must set our mark up to the Dutch and Danish stand- 

 ards to testing before we can hope to equal them in this 

 practical dairy work.'* 



