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Canadian Agriculture. 
breeders, the lowest rental for the season being 100/., and the 
highest 500/., for " Prince Pogis," a son of " Mary Ann," the 
service being limited to five cows. In addition to the Oaklands 
sales, American buyers have purchased freely from other Cana- 
dian herds rich in the blood of the St. Lamberts family, Mr. 
George Smith, of Grimsby, Ont., having obtained 1000/. for a 
" Stoke Pogis " and " Victor Hugo " cow. The following 
extraordinary figures were obtained in official tests made on the 
Oaklands Farm, in 1884, by the American Jersey Cattle Club, 
as mentioned above : — 
Same of Cow. 
Mary Ann of St. Lamberts 
Ida of St. Lamberts 
Mermaid of St. Lamber:.s .. 
Naiad of St. Lamberts 
Niobe of St. Lamberts 
Total 136 lbs. 8oz. 
This gives the remarkable average of 27 lbs. 5 oz. of butter 
per cow per week. These figures are official, and I take upon 
myself no responsibility in reproducing them ; I am unable to 
state what treatment the cows received before being submitted 
to the test, what was the condition of their health at the time, 
or what yields they gave in the weeks preceding or following 
the one recorded. 
The Holstein or Dutch Friesian cattle are beg-innins: to 
attract considerable notice, and some authorities incline to the 
opinion that these ponderous animals may ere long prove to be 
serious rivals to the Jerseys. The principal breeders and im- 
porters are Messrs. Lord, Cook and Son, of Aultsville, Ontario. 
Professor Brown, in a letter to the Select Agricultural Com- 
mittee of the Dominion House of Commons, maintains that one 
of the chief disadvantages Canadian stock-keepers labour under 
is the want of better pasture, and he advocates the establishment 
of permanent pasture such as has been formed at the Ontario 
Experimental Farm, and which is able to keep one and one- 
fourth beast per acre, while three acres of the ordinary kind are 
required for the support of one beast. There is further a need 
of better tree-shelter, a want of a greater numlier of pure-bred 
males, and a lack of knowledge of the adaptability of different 
breeds to the various conditions throughout the Dominion. 
Professor Brown is quite satisfied as to the suitability of 
different parts of tlie Dominion, both in the Eastern Provinces 
and in the North-West Territories, to the production of mutton 
and wool on a l^rge and cheap scale. 
Quantity of Butter produced by 
each Cow in Seven consecutive days. 
lbs. oz. 
, .. 36 12i 
, .. 30 2i 
25 13J 
, .. 22 2i 
. .. 21 9* 
