Report on the Exhibition of Live- Stock at Xoricich. 699 
July 12th, the weights and measures of milk heins; recorded at the time. 
Samples were also taken lor analysis, and sent to the Society's Laboratory. 
Table of Eesxilts of Milkixg Trials of Dairy Cows at Xorwich, 1886. 
Xo. 
Morning 
Quantity. 
Wei 
lilt. 
Evening 
Quantity. 
Weight. 
Total Quan- 
tity. 
Total 
Weight. 
Percentage 
of Total 
Solid*. 
Class 106. 
lbs. 
qts. pts. gills. 
lbs. 
OZ. 
qts. 
pts. giUs. 
lbs. 
oz. 
qts. pts. gills. 
oz. 
.. .. 
11 
0 0 
26 
12 
7 
1 
0 
18 
2 
18 
1 
0 
44 
14 
12- 11 
1160 .. .. 
9 
0 Oi 
22 
0 
5 
0 
1 
12 
0 
14 
0 
U 
34 
0 
11-98 
1161 .. .. 
9 
0 0 
21 
12 
4 
1 
0 
10 
14 
13 
1 
0 
32 
10 
11-95 
1162 .. .. 
S 
1 0 
20 
12 
4 
1 
0 
11 
0 
13 
0 
0 
31 
12 
13-43 
1163 .. .. 
12 
1 1 
30 
6 
7 
0 
0 
16 
4 
19 
1 
1 
46 
10 
11-70 
Class 107. 
1170 .. .. 
0 
0 2i 
23 
4 
1 
2 
13 
•2 
14 
•2 
01 
36 
6 
12-33 
Analyses. 
Xo. 1168. 
Xo. 1160. Xo. 1161. 
Xo. 1162. 
X^. 1163. Xo. 1170. 
Water 
Fat 
Casein, Milk, Sugar,&c. 
Ash 
87-89 
3-38 
7-99 
•74 
88-02 
2-95 
8-25 
•78 
88-05 
2-77 
8-52 
•66 
86-57 
3-67 
9'09 
-67 
88-30 
2-79 
8-22 
-69 
87-67 
3-53 
8-08 
•72 
100 00 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
100-0(1 
Percentage of Total\ 
Solids / 
Spec. Gravity .. 
Percentage of Cream,"! 
by volxmie . . . . / 
12-11 
1-0310 
SO 
11^98 
1-0305 
7-9 
11-95 
1-0325 
6-5 
13-43 
1-0310 
11-0 
11-70 
1-0305 
7-0 
12-33 
1-0315 
8-6 
From the above Tables it will be seen that Nos. 1158 and 1170 were the 
only ones that fulfilled the conditions of the competition, IIGO, 1161 and 1162 
being deficient in the quantitj- of milk yielded, and 1163 being deficient in 
the quality of the milk. 
J. AUGCSTUS TOELCKER. 
SHEEP. 
In this division of the Royal Showyard the old show-goer 
will have marked a great change during the last twenty years ; 
the long-wooUed light-faced breeds have had to give way to a 
very great extent, not only to varieties of sheep then exhibited 
and having dark faces, but to several new breeds with coloured 
points ; some of these new varieties furnishing a larger number 
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