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Milk Tests in Wisconsin. 



[NOV., 



or four years the value of the year's clip has been enhanced by 

 about ioo per cent. The following table shows the average 

 prices of British wool since 1901, the year when they were at 

 their lowest point : — 



Years. 



Leicester.* 



Half- 

 Breds.* 



South- 

 down. * 



Lincoln, t 



White 

 Cheviot. J 



White 

 Highland. J 





Per lb. 



Per lb. 



Per lb. 



Per lb. 



Per lb. 



Per lb. 





d. d. 



d. d. 



d. d. 



d. 



& d. 



^. ^. 



1901 



Sh to 6 



5i to 9? 



7k to 91 



6f 



Si to 8i 



4 to 41 



1902 



5 „ 51 



51 6| 



7i „ 9 j 



6i- 



5f „ H 



4i » 4l 



1903 



6§ 6i 



7i » 8 



H n± 



7i 



71 „ 9 



51 , 5 6i 



1904 



8-1- „ 91 



9h » IO ¥ 



9* nf 



IG| 



10 io| 



7 „ 74 



1905 



nf „ 12 



nf „ 12I 



n| „ i3i 



I2i 



12 ,, 13 



71 „ 8 



1906 



I2| 13 



I3t >> Hi 



Hi „ i5i 



Hi 



i3i » Mi 



8* „ 8f 



* Computed from the prices given in the Economist. 

 t Extracted from "The Yorkshire Daily Observer Wool Tables." 

 % Computed from the prices given in the Transactions of the Highland and 

 Agricultural Society of Scotland. 



It will be observed that since the rise commenced in 1902 its 

 progress, taking all classes of wool into account, appears to have 

 been fairly consistent from year to year. In 1906 the advance 

 received some check, and for some months there was little if 

 any improvement. On the whole, however, the upward 

 movement continued, and the rise on the year appears to have 

 amounted, on the average, to nearly i^d. per lb., while since 

 1902 it amounts to about 6%d. per lb., or 100 per cent. 



A system of testing the milk yield of pure-bred cows has 

 been in operation in Wisconsin since 1894 in connection with 

 several breeding societies, the tests, being 

 Milk Tests in carried out by the Wisconsin Experiment 

 Wisconsin. Station. The length of the test varies 

 according to the requirements of the 

 societies, and may extend over seven days, generally at the 

 beginning of the lactation period, or over 30 days, or the test 

 may be made one day each month. During late years, however, 

 a strong feeling has grown up among breeders that the only 

 reliable test of the capacity of a cow for dairy production is 

 one continued for an entire lactation period or for a year. 

 Seven-day or thirty-day tests are regarded as interesting as 



