THE AOBICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



703 



A merge an Dairy Cow Trials. 



THE following is extracted from the 

 " Manchester Guardian " : — 



The Buffalo dairy cow trials have con- 

 cluded. They are the most remarkable 

 in the history of milk and butter trials, 

 inasmuch as five cows of each of ten 

 breeds have been under trial for six 

 months and details carefully tabulated. 

 Dismissing the three native breeds, we have 

 seven varieties, five of which are the chief 

 English dairy breeds, the other two being 

 the brown Swiss and the Dutch. The 

 result is that, from the point of view of 

 profit, the Guernseys have taken the first 

 ■ place as butter-makers ; while the Dutch 

 occupy a similar position as the producers 

 of the largest yield of milk, the largest 

 weight of total solids, and the greatest 

 profit on the basis of total solids in the 

 milk and increase in weight of car- 

 case combined. The only position ob- 

 tained by the Shorthorn is that the cows 

 gained more than double the weight that 

 was gained by the cows of any other 

 breed, and this is precisely what was not 

 required. The five Dutch cows gave 

 nearly 4,000 gallons of milk, the 

 Ayrshires following with 3,300, and the 

 Shorthorns with nearly 3,200. The 

 poorest milk was the Dutch with 3-25 per 

 cent, of fat, the richest was that of the 

 Jerseys and Guernseys with 4-6 ; the Red 

 Polls gave 3-98, and the other breeds 3-6. 

 The actual weight of fat as of butter, both 

 estimated by calculation and obtained by 

 the churn, was credited to the Dutch, and 

 It was only because the Dutch cows cost 

 so much more to feed than the Jerseys 

 and Guernseys that they were beaten. 

 The most costly cows to feed were the 

 Dutch, closely followed by the Short- 

 horns, the other breeds costing very much 

 less. Practicallv, then, the special butter- 

 makuig breeds are the most economical 

 in iho use of thwir food, for whether as 

 butter-makers or total solid i)ruducers the 

 whole lot beat the c>horthorns, which had 

 to give way to every uther B/itish breed, 

 whether as regards butter or total solitls;' 

 and it was only the increase in weight 

 made by the Shorthorn cows that gave 



thein the third position in the final ques- 

 tion of profit, not as regards butter, but as 

 regards the combined value of the total 

 solids and beef. Many efforts have been 

 made of late to prove that the Shorthorn 

 —I speak of the pure or pedigree breed — 

 is a first-class dairy cow, but I suppose 

 every Cheshire farmer (to take a body of 

 men who know something of the subject) 

 would agree that the pedigree Shorthorn 

 IS not adapted to his particular work, 

 namely the production of milk for cheese- 

 making ; and assuredly the butter-making 

 farmer would be still less likely to adop't 

 this great national beef-making breed. 

 The aristocracy of the cattle breeding in- 

 terest, however, do not take the same 

 view, and therefore the lesson of the 

 American trials will probably be lost upon 

 them, for if the cows were fed upon the 

 same foods that lesson is of enormous 

 national value. 



"College Green 



MR. P. D. SIMMONS, Natal Stud, has 

 obtained "College Green" for the 

 season. He is a chestnut blood horse 

 foaled 1891; got by "Baliol," dam 

 " Village Green " by " Tom Moor," etc. 

 See Stud Book, Vol. XVH., page, 797. 

 He has won good races with big weights. 



Nottingham Maiden National Hunt 

 Flat Race, 2 miles, carrying 12st. 7ibs. 

 Salford Hurdle Race, 2 miles, list. 81bs. 

 Badnott National Hunt, 2 miles, 12st. 

 121bs. 



Border Handicap Hurdle Race, 2 miles, 

 list. 8lbs. 



Ruthven N.H. Flat Race, 2 miles, 

 list. ' 



Wclbeck Handicap Hurdle Race, 2 

 miles, 12st. 51b, 



f'^u "i™*" p.ofessor, na'n.d Behring, winner 

 ot the iNobel prize for medicine, announces that 

 he has provtd the possibility of renderin"- cattle 

 immune to tuberculosis by inojulation. "Ue has 

 declared his intention of employing the mouey 

 gained by the Nobel prize in putting the treat- 

 ment into practice. 



