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a week; fifteen 4-year-olds averaging 20 pounds 12 8-10 ounces 

 in a week; twelve best cows average 21 pounds 63^ ounces in a 

 week; five best cows average 23 pounds 7 ounces in a week. 



In the Lakeside herd one hundred cows and heifers have 

 been tested, whose records average 17 pounds 42-100 ounces of 

 butter per week; sixty that averaged 20 pounds y 2 ounce per 

 week; twenty-two cows and heifers averaged 23 pounds 1 19-22 

 ounces in a week; fifteen averaged 24 pounds 11-15 ounces a 

 week; twenty-three 3-year-olds average 17 pounds 9-23 ounces 

 a week; eight 3-year-olds average 20 pounds 2 ounces a week; 

 ten 2-year-olds average 14 pounds 3 3-10" ounces; thirty-eight 

 2-year-olds average 12 pounds 16-38 ounces. 



The week before last six cows were tested at Lakeside with 

 the following result, which are in addition to those given above : 

 Aggie May, 20 pounds 2 ounces, in a week ; Aggie Idaline 2d, 

 20 pounds 5 ounces in a week; Aggie Hannah, 19 pounds 7^ 

 ounces, Aggie Idaline, 19 pounds 2^ ounces; Margaretha, 19 

 pounds y 2 ounce; Aggie Eva, 17 pounds ^ ounce. This includes 

 the entire number in test at that time. 



For the express purpose of giving you the following facts, I 

 have just visited the main barn at Lakeside, in which a majority 

 of the mature cows in that herd are kept: 



I found, in all, fifty-four cows, all of which had been tested 

 for butter ; three had made their records as 2-year-olds, thirteen 

 as 3-year-olds; seven as 4-year-olds and thirty-one as mature 

 cows. The smallest record was 13 pounds 5^ ounces per week, 

 by a 2-year-old heifer; the largest was 28 pounds 2^ ounces per 

 week, made by Clothilde. The average for the entire fifty-four 

 head was over 18 pounds 13 ounces per week: twenty of these 

 cows had records of 20 pounds in a week or over. 



This was at one barn only and does not include a large num- 

 ber of 20-pound cows on other farms. 



A comparison of the above records, with those of herds 

 of other breeds, may be of interest to those who wish to solve 

 the question, " Which is the best butter breed?" 



It has been very gratifying to those who are especially inter- 



