104 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



— records that are universally admitted as beyond reasonable 

 doubt; while a few records of from one to six months have 

 been made. 



We do not claim that the short seven-day record is a measure 

 of the capacity of the cow for the year, and that the whole year 

 should be computed at the same rate ; but we do claim that those 

 short records furnish a very strong indication of what a cow 

 can do under favorable circumstances, and I have never known 

 of a really good yearly record without a good send off at the 

 start. 



These records show that the Holstein-Friesian cow is at the 

 front in the production of butterfat. To show what it is really 

 possible for a Holstein-Friesian cow to do, I will mention the 

 ten best official seven-day records : 



Milk. Fat Butter. 



Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. 



Aggie Cornucopia Pauline 659.2 27,459 34.33 



Sadie Vale Concordia 694.4 24.508 30.64 



Mercedes Julip's Pietertje 584.0 23.487 29.36 



May Hartog Pauline DeKol 633.2 23.417 29.27 



Pontiac Lunde Hengerveld 559.3 22.730 28.41 



Lilith Pauline DeKol 653.4 22.589 28.24 



Segis Inka 578.2 22.430 28.04 



Beryl Wayne 608.1 22.298 27.87 



Ianthe Jewel Mechthilde 503.0 22.117 27.65 



Mercena 2nd 544.1 22.108 27.64 



These ten cows gave 6,017.3 pounds of milk, containing 

 233.143 pounds of butter fat, showing an average of 3.87 per 

 cent fat. The average per cow was 601.7 pounds of milk, con- 

 taining 23.314 pounds of butter fat, which is equal to 85.9 pounds 

 of milk and 3 1-3 pounds of butter fat per day. 



The opponents of our breed, while now admitting that the 

 fat may be in the milk, have in the past asserted that we could 

 not get it out, and that there were large losses in the skim milk. 

 When the old system of shallow setting in pans was practiced, 

 this criticism partially held good, but with the introduction of 

 deep, cold setting we got nearly all, and with the present centri- 

 fugal system of skimming, every one knows that the separator 



