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her, but at the end of the year we had 380 pounds of butter fat 

 against 246 pounds. 



Cow No. ;^2 is another one of her daughters, a half sister 

 to No. 21. The increase was not quite as large, 1,989 pbunds 

 of milk and 89 pounds of fat. If you have a pure bred sire at 

 the head of your herd you won't get all of the daughters to do 

 as well as these two. Not all of the daughters in my herd did as 

 well as that, but there is probably only one exception where the 

 daughter did not do fully as well as the dam, and usually some 

 better. What I am working is keeping these good cows and 

 raising heifer calves from them, keeping the best ones and sell- 

 ing the poor ones. If I have a cow that is not profitable, no 

 dairy man will get her — she will go to the butcher. If I have a 

 cow that returns a fairly good profit and another one that re- 

 turns a better, I sell the one that does not produce quite as large 

 a profit. She goes to the Elgin District, 



Cow No. 17 produced 8,912 pounds of milk, 361 pounds 

 of fat. Her dam produced 5,970 pounds of milk, 270! pounds 

 of fat. There was an increase of 2,942 pounds of milk and 91 

 pounds of fat. The dam had Jersey blood in her, and you will 

 notice that, while the increase here in milk was large, the in- 

 crease in fat was not so large. The daughter was sired by a 

 pure bred Holstein sire. The milk of the dam tested very high. 



Cow No. 24 averaged within one pound of 11,200 pounds 

 of milk, and 397 pounds of fat, or practically 400 pounds of 

 fat five consecutive years. Figuring butter fat, her calf and 

 skim milk, that cow returns about $200 worth of product every 

 year. Her feed does not amount to more than about $70 or $75, 

 and the balance is what we have for labor. The dam of this 

 cow has an average of 8,199 pounds of milk and 264 pounds of 

 fat. The grand dam, the mother of this cow, averaged 9,802 

 pounds of milk and 386 pounds of fat. When she was 13 years 

 old she dropped a calf and milked 21 months, producing 16,481 

 pounds of milk and 710 pounds of fat. At 15 years she dropped 

 another calf and milked 21 months again, or until she was 

 nearly 17 years old. During that 21 months she produced 

 17,042 pounds of milk and 775 pounds of fat. I doubt whether 



