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FURTHER FACTS ABOUT MILK TESTS. 
Mr. ITursh, page 347, complains 
that I was not fair in my arti¬ 
cle “ Frenzied Cow Testing,” in that 
I did not compare the Jerseys and 
Holsteins at St. Louis. I will say 
tljat the article in question was not 
intended as a comparison of the two 
breeds of cattle, but rather to show up 
the foolishness of some of the tests 
that are being made by both classes of 
breeder. Now that Mr. Hursh of 
Ohio and Mr. Fuller of New York have 
challenged me, I will cheerfully under¬ 
take to defend my favorites, the Jer¬ 
seys. The official awards at St. Louis 
were as follows: Class A.—Economic 
production of butter fat and butter. 
Best cow of any breed, Champion, Lo¬ 
retta D, 141708, Jersey. Best five cows 
of any breed, first, Loretta D, 141708, 
Jersey; second, Diplomas Brown Las¬ 
sie, 166688, Jersey; third, Eurybia, 
143822, Jersey; fourth, Dorinda Dar¬ 
ling, 146249, Jersey; fifth, Shadybrook 
Gerben, 43753, Holstein. Class B.— 
Economic production of milk for all 
purposes of dairying. Best cow of any 
breed, Champion, Loretta D, 141708, 
Jersey; best five cows of any kind, 
first, Loretta D, 141708, Jersey; sec¬ 
ond, Shadybrook Gerben, 43753, Hol¬ 
stein ; third, Diplomas Brown Lassie, 
166688, Jersey; fourth, Eurybia, 143822, 
Jersey; fifth, Prize Mayo Duchess 2d, 
132976, Jersey. 
In the table giving the relative stand¬ 
ing of individuals in Class A. we find 
that the best Holstein stands fifth, the 
second sixteenth, the third nineteenth, 
the fourth twenty-third, the fifth twen¬ 
ty-seventh, all the others being Jerseys. 
So there were 23 Jerseys that were bet¬ 
ter than the fifth Holstein. Relative 
standing of individuals in Class B; the 
second was a Holstein, the twelfth, 
sixteenth, eighteenth and twenty-fourth 
made up the best five, all the others 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
being Jerseys. Now these facts arc ta¬ 
ken from the official report, and there 
are a lot of other facts that did not get 
into this report, among which might 
be mentionecl the fact that the test was 
to start May 6, and that while the Jer¬ 
seys were all ready to go in at that 
time, the actual start was not made 
until June 16, when some of the Jer¬ 
charged up with the food that she ate 
it was an altogether different matter 
from eating 40 pounds of grain a day 
at some other cow’s expense. 
What the dairy farmer must have, 
if he is to live by dairying, is cows 
that will make a profit over their cost 
of feed. A tremendous Babcock test 
may be nice to brag about and sell 
THE SENTIMENTAL SIDE OF DAIRYING. 
seys had been in milk since the first of 
March. The Holstein men then sprang 
a lot of recently fresh cows on us, 
thinking with the advantage thus gained 
to win out easily. But where the Hol¬ 
steins ran against a snag in the St. 
Louis test was the fact that the awards 
were made for the greatest profit from 
the cows. When the Holstein was 
stock by, but the farmers all over the 
country are groaning over the small 
profits of dairying, and incidentally they 
are straining every nerve to make their 
milk come up to the legal standard. I 
will call the attention of Messrs. Hursh 
and Fuller to the article on page 349. 
“Holsteins and the Milk Standard.” 
Thousands of farmers all over the 
April 17, 
State know from bitter experience that 
this article states the bare facts of the 
case. But I do not agree with G. W. 
E. that the standard should be low¬ 
ered. The R. N.-Y. would not advise 
that the sale of small wormy apples be 
encouraeed because worms infest the 
apple trees and apples are apt to be 
wormy. No. The fruit grower must 
spray the trees, throw out the small and 
otherwise inferior fruit, and send only 
the best to market, to insure large 
consumption of, and a good price for 
his fruit. Then why should not the 
dairyman keep his cows healthy, his 
stables clean, and incidentally produce 
milk of good value as food? There 
surely is no nourishment in water, and 
it is a waste of energy to transport and 
handle an excess of it. 
J. GRANT MORSE. 
Effects of Mud and Water on Milch Animals. 
Will it dry up a cow to stand with her 
udder in water? I have heard some say it 
will, and will it dry up a sow to lie in 
mud and water? j. f. s. 
Auburn, N. Y. 
This depends entirely upon the con¬ 
ditions under which the animals are 
kept. On a warm Summer day it will 
not dry up a cow if she chooses to 
wade into a pond until her udder is in 
the water, neither will it have any bad 
effect on a sow running in a pasture 
in hot weather to lie in a puddle of 
mud and water as her own inclination 
dictates. If you mean by your ques¬ 
tion to ask if it will dry up cows or 
sows to be compelled to lie in mud and 
water at any season of the year, es¬ 
pecially in cold weather, the answer 
would be decidedly yes. Not only does 
such treatment dry up the animal’s 
milk, but if continued for any great 
length of time it will impair the 
health, ultimately causing death. 
C. S. GREENE. 
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Ever See the Like? 
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