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milk I had two cows in the barn that stood side by side, and 

 one was considered as good as the other. One was a grade 

 Shorthorn and the other a grade Holstein, the one that had that 

 great record afterward. I always considered one as good as the 

 other. One had about as large an udder as the other. I had a 

 number of chances to sell the red cow, while no one asked about 

 the Holstein. When we weighed the milk of these two cows 

 No. 6 produced 9,800 pounds of milk and 383 pounds of fat, 

 while No. 7 produced 4,700 pounds of milk and 167 pounds of 

 fat, a difference of about 5,000 pounds of milk and 219 pounds 

 of fat. They got the same amount and kind of feed and fresh- 

 ened at the same time. That goes to show what we know about 

 the cows by guessing at what they are producing. I have 

 weighed milk for eleven years, and I will not undertake to 

 guess today how much milk there is in a pail. No other man 

 can. There is a lot of foam on a pail and you cannot tell how^ 

 much milk you have. Some cows give a large flow of milk for 

 a month, six weeks or two months. It is the cow that gives a 

 good flow at least 340 days in the year that counts. 



Mr. : Which cow was it that made the good 



record 



Mr. Foss : It was the Holstein cow. She was three- fourths 

 Holstein, sired by a pure bred sire, and her dam was half Hol- 

 stein. It makes no difference which one of the dairy breeds 

 you have. The essential thing to do is to weigh the milk from 

 each cow and sell the unprofitable ones. Raise the heifer calves 

 from the best cows and you can have a profitable herd in a few 

 years. 



Average Production. Cow Test Association. 



2 year old .233 pounds milk 178 pounds fat 



3 year old 281 pounds milk 191 pounds fat 



4 year old 260 pounds milk 204 pounds fat 



5 year old 217 pounds fat 



6 year old 289 pounds milk 228 pounds fat 



7 year old 335 pounds milk 237 pounds fat 



