80 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



explain it, but he was ignorant of the fact that he had given the prizes to 

 the Holsteins. 



Everybody acknowledged that the Holsteins at the Pan American 

 were an inferior lot. If you were there in September when the Holstein 

 Association went out there at their own expense and brought in cattle 

 there for a week and showed the public what they had, you would have 

 seen a different grade of cattle. The cows went in and made upwards of 

 2122 pounds, after being shipped on the cars. I don't believe the fair way 

 is to take a cow away from her home. 



In 1891 the Holstein-Friesan Association offered to put up $500 in the 

 First National Bank of Syracuse and asked any other breed, dairy breed, 

 to put up a like amount for butter test. Just made a bet you might say on 

 the Holsteins. In a few days the Jersey men accepted the offer, but 

 when the Cattle Club met they said "No, they didn't want to cover it." 

 Why wouldn't they cover it? Offered to take it any way even pounds in 

 the fat and the World's Fair standard, 80 per cent fat (85.7 now), but no 

 one would cover it. That offer stood good for a year. It seems to me if 

 they cannot come up and meet us in open competition on fair lines, it 

 must surely be a fact they cannot compete with the Holsteins. 



The place I know of a butter test being made was in the State of 

 Washington. I happened to know the cow that won the prize, Peek-a-Boo, 

 raised near Syracuse, N. Y. She was a very good cow. Test was for one 

 day, 24 hours. In the evening at 6 o'clock the representative saw the cow 

 milked dry. At 6 a. m. Peek-a-Boo gave twenty pounds of milk which 

 tested 3 per cent on the butter fat. 84 valued at 25 cents; total value 

 43.05. And in the evening gave 30 pounds, test 3 per cent and 9-10 pounds 

 butter fat, valued 22.05; total for day 43 cents. Total pounds of milk 58, 

 value of milk a day 52.20 cents. 



The Jersey men claim that she don't make butter, but she gives us 

 the stuff to make the butter. Here is a list (shows paper). All official 

 records under the Experimental Station, for the Holstein Association. 

 Each cow is milked and the milk weighed and tested and sampled. The 

 owner has nothing more to do with it than you sitting there, after he 

 draws the milk. The representative takes the pail from under the cow. 

 He keeps these samples in his own possession. No man has access to 

 them whatever. If that thing is continued as it is being done, why we 



