^2 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Group 2. — Cows Producing Less Than 150 Pounds of Butter Fat. 



But- Day 



Name of Age, Date of 



Cow. yr. Breed. Calving. 



Jane 3 Native 3-29-02 



Beauty 4 Native 3-9-02 



Susie 3 Native 3-19-02 



Roan 8 Native 7-15-02 



Millv, 



Fat, 



Fat, 



ter. 



m 



lb. 



%. 



It). 



lb. 



Milk 



3684 



3.58 



132 



154 



308 



3580 



3.74 



134 



156 



245 



3233 



4.23 



137 



160 



273 



3697 



4.03 



149 



174 



203 



=ound: 



s of Butter 



Fat. 





3960 



4.11 



163 



190 



301 



4883 



3.48 



170 



198 



245 



4547 



3.85 



175 



204 



273 



Alta 3 Gr. Jersey 12-27-02 



Blue 7 Native 1-3-02 



Rose 6 Native 3-15-02 



REPORT OF HZRD " Q. " 



In this dairy were found Shorthorns, grade Shorthorns, 

 grade Holsteins, one Jersey, one Jersey-Shorthorn, and one Hol- 

 stein-Jersey. The owner aimed to keep full blood Shorthorns or 

 high grades, and to build up a class of Shorthorns that were 

 good milkers. A number of the Shorthorn cows made some very 

 good records, but the cows that contained the dairy blood gave 

 the hrger average yields. The herd reje>\ed fairly good care 

 during the test and at times they were fe I lieivily. When the 

 records of some of these Shorthorn cows are compared with the 

 records of some of the special dairy animals it will be noticed 

 that the records of the Shorthorns are considerable higher, not 

 only in milk flows, but butter production. It is perhaps well to 

 mention that the blood of the cow. Bonny Clay, has been owned 

 by this farmer for niTny yeirs. The female ancestry of this 

 cow, and of all the full blood Shorthorns have been noted as 

 being good milkers. It might be said that they originated from 

 one cow back in the early sixties. What a pity it is that the 

 blood of such an excellent cow had not been made better use of. 

 The registration should have been kept up and a judicious se- 

 lection made of her progeny, which should have been bred to 

 carefully selected sires. 



The work of testing this herd began May 1 and the dairy 

 received nothing but pasture grass until late in the fall. During 

 the winter months the cows giving the largest flow of milk 

 they received the following : 



