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that each herd's milk was separated. We took two herds each day. That 

 made it five clays in each week we got around and separated the milk. 

 The cream from that milk was ripened and churned, and from that churn- 

 ing the butter was estimated. We did not do as usual, take say 12 pounds 

 of butter a churn and multiply that by seven, because you know that 

 would not be fair. For on the day we separated the milk they might 

 iiave done remarkably well, or the herdsmen might, if they knew when 

 their time came, have played a little trick that would have shown them 

 up much better. So the milk was weighed separately, and from that the 

 number of pounds of butter it had made, from so many pounds- of milk, 

 the rest of the week was estimated. That's what we called estimated but- 

 ter. 



Here I will give you the amount of milk they gave. Will give the 

 Guernseys first: Estimated butter, 1429.43 pounds; value, $357.36; cost 

 of feed, $136.99; net profit, $220.37. 



Jersey — Estimated butter, 1400.15 pounds; value, $352.25; cost of feed. 

 $137.78; net profit, $214.51. 



Ayrshires — Estimated butter 1415.57 pounds; value, $353.89; cost of 

 feed, $140.98; net profit, $212.91. 



Holsteins— Estimated butter, J 430.28; value, $357.57; cost of feed 

 $164.69; net profit, $192.88. 



There were four prizes offered ai the Model Dairy. First prize for 

 net profit on butter fat. Second prize for net profit in churned butter. 

 Third prize, net profit in total solic's, and fourth prize, net profit in total 

 solids and gain in live weight. Each cow was weighed once each day for 

 five days at beginning of test, and also weighed at the last of the test, and 

 if there was a loss in weight that was deducted at the rate of 3 cents a 

 pound, and if they gained they were credited with 3 cents a pound. 



The Guernseys produced 1248.09 pounds of butter fat at a cost of feed 

 of $136.99, gives a net profit of $2:i0.10. 



The Jerseys produced 1234.96 pounds of butter fat at a cost of feed 

 of $137.78. That made a net profit of $225.44. 



