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at any stow before this ; but the owner, knowing the large yield 
of milk the cow gave, sent her for competition, as the Show 
was in the neighbourhood. This cow gave the extraordinarily 
large yield of 72^ lb. of milk at two milkings, a quantity 
considerably in excess of anything recorded either at Plymouth 
last year or at Windsor in 1889, the greatest yield from any 
cow at the latter Show being 64^ lb. Naturally the quality 
was not high, but on the average of the two milkings it came 
above the standard, showing 12-01 per cent, of solids and 3 0 7 
per cent, of fat. This cow had calved on April 25, and the 
owner stated that she only went dry for about four weeks. Bean- 
and pea-meal, oats, and maize-meal, with a little linseed-cake, 
were the usual additional foods. J\Ir. George Church secured 
the second and third prizes in this division with two shorthorns, 
one of them. No. 1308 (Miss Cope), being well known at milk- 
ing competitions, and having shortly before won at the Oxford- 
shire Show. However, she was here placed below her com- 
panion, Ko. 1369 (NcDicy), the latter having calved as recently 
as June 2, while Miss Cope had calved on April 6. Bean-meal 
and crushed oats, with, in winter, cotton- and linseed-cake, are 
the additional foods Mr. Church uses. The Shorthorn cow 
No. 1370 (Stratuherrij) only lost the third prize by a few ounces 
less yield of milk. 
It is worthy of note in this competition that, although there 
were cows entered which weighed 1,300 lb. and 1,400 lb. live 
weight, by far the greatest yield was given by the lightest cow 
of all, her weight being only 1,127 lb., so that she narrowly 
escaped being placed in the other division. 
In Division B, although the yields do not equal the 
Windsor returns in 1889, the quality of both morning and 
evening milkings was extremely good, and in no case was the 
standard not reached. Here, again, the first prize was won by 
the lightest cow, and the second prize by the next lightest, the 
heaviest cow of all only obtaining the third place. The first and 
second prizes went to Jersey cows, the third to No. 1369^4, a 
big cow of unknown breeding, belonging to Mr. George Church, 
who thus secured three of the six prizes offered. This cow, 
Floicer, had taken a silver medal at last year's Dairy Show. 
The first prize cow, No. 1373 (Daystar 2nd), belonging to Mrs. 
Swan, was a beautiful animal, and showed remarkable develop- 
ment of the milk veins. She was no less than eleven years 
old, and had calved on April 1. Mr. Salisbury Baxendale's 
four-year-old Jersey cow, Blossom, was second. 
