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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 23, 
THE BEST DAIRY COW. 
What is the best record ever made by a 
dairy cow in milk or butter? What is the 
highest per cent of butter fat found in nor¬ 
mal milk ? 
Capabilities of the Guernsey. 
The Secretary of the Guernsey Cattle 
Club sends the following statement of 
record*. 
LARGEST YEARLY RECORDS. 
lbs. but- 
lhs. milk ter fat 
Yoksa Sunbeam 15439... .14,020.80 857.15 
Imp. Itchen Daisy.13,030.80 714.10 
Yeksa Lind 14275.11.930.90 650.50 
Robiline 2d 10117. Adv... 11,761.00 003.59 
Dolly Bloom 12770, Adv. . 12,074.83 623.94 
Voksarose 16610. Adv.... 11,275.50 638.49 
Penthesilia 17625. 9,922.40 539.07 
Best milk record, Dolly Bloom (12770) 
Adv. R. 40, Re-entry, 17,297.51 pounds. 
Those made before Advanced Register was 
started, yet with the public supervision of 
an agricultural experiment station: 
lbs. but- 
lbs. milk ter fat 
Lily Ella 7240.12,282.68 782.16 
I.ilvita 7241.12,812.73 710.53 
Gypsy of Racine 9639-11,247.50 611.40 
SEVEN DAY RECORDS. 
lbs. age, 
fat years 
16.22 4% 
16.06 7% 
16.02 4 
13.52 4 
11.80 2% 
The milk from the best cow Yeksa 
Sunbeam 15439 tested 5.74 per cent but¬ 
ter fat. That from Dolly Bloom tested 
4.84 per cent. The record of richest 
milk is given to the young cow, Modita 
14644, which tested 6.51 per cent butter 
fat. 
Claims for the Holstein-Friesian. 
De Kol Creamelle has produced under 
official test the largest amounts of milk 
for the periods of one day, seven days 
and thirty days, being respectively 119.7 
pounds, 780.6 pounds and 3,200.3 pounds, 
while Colantha 4th’s Johanna has pro¬ 
duced the most milk in one year, the 
amount being 27,432.5 pounds. De Kol 
Witkop Wayne 2d produced 4.77 pounds 
butter fat in one day; Colantha 4th s 
Johanna, 28.176 pounds fat in one week, 
and 110.833 pounds fat in 30 days, and 
she also produced 998.26 pounds of fat 
in one year. Shadybrook Gerben Par- 
thenea averaged for an official test of 
one week’s duration 6.79 pounds by the 
Babcock test, which is, I believe, the 
highest week’s average for an animal 
of the Holstein-Friesian breed. Single 
milkings for this cow, as well as for 
other Holstein-Friesian cows, would 
show higher. Note that I have given 
you milk and fat, not butter, as the Hol¬ 
stein-Friesian Association keeps all its 
records in milk and fat only. 
M. H. GARDNER. 
Ibs. 
milk 
Queen Deete 9794, Adv. 
R. 11.413.1 
Imp. Princess Rbea 15479, 
Adv. R. 59.349.09 
Mentor M*aid 13261, Adv. 
R. 12.299.9 
Cecchina 11694, Adv. R. 
33 .300.37 
Beautv of Belle Vernon 
13260, Adv. R. 13-279.2 
What Jerseys Have Done. 
We do not make any record of daily 
yields, as we do not consider that they 
are of very much value in showing the 
quality of a cow. The shortest test 
which we put on record is for seven 
days. The highest butter records for 
official tests for seven days are as fol¬ 
lows : Princess 2d 8046, 46 pounds 12J4 
ounces; Oxford Kate 13646, 39 pounds 
12 ounces; Mary Anne of St. Lambert 
9770, 36 pounds 12 ]/ A ounces. Milk rec¬ 
ords are, as you know, not the Jersey’s 
strongest point, and we do not accept 
weekly milk tests for record. We have 
had an official test fat contest as high 
as nine per cent, but this was when the 
cow was about running dry; of course 
the average fat percentage for a year 
is a far better criterion of the quality 
of Jersey milk. j. j. Hemingway. 
R. N.-Y.—In the “Honor List” of 
Jersey cows the best yearly record we 
find is that of Olive Dunn 188832, in 
the class of five years and over. She 
made a record of 9,930 pounds four 
ounces of milk in one year. This con¬ 
tained 671 pounds 13 ounces of butter 
fat, which means 790 pounds of butter. 
Her milk averaged 6.766 per cent butter 
fat. The highest testing milk of a Jer¬ 
sey in the “Honor List” is that of 
Lassie of Sheomet 180927, a cow under 
three years. She was not a heavy milk¬ 
er, but her milk contained 7.023 per cent 
fat! In a seven days’ test the best Jer¬ 
sey record was made by Sig Dagmar 
147286, which gave 385 pounds 13 ounces 
of milk and 16.473 pounds of fat, or 20 
pounds 2]/ 2 ounces of churned butter. 
Another Jersey, Lome’s Oonan 135969, 
gave milk testing 7.3 per cent fat. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Butter has dropped four cents since last 
report. Receipts are considerably increased, 
and there is a disposition to get rid of as 
much of the hay-made stock as possible be¬ 
fore grass butter becomes plentiful. 
Strawberries are plentiful and selling 
low, though some Maryland fruit brought 
20 cents. The common run have sold from 
10 to 15 cents. 
Big Harbor Dredge. —The harbor of Liv¬ 
erpool, England, is to have the largest 
dredging machine ever built. It will be 478 
feet long, 69 wide and 30 deep. In addi¬ 
tion to Its machinery it can carry 180,000 
cubic feet of sand, and put on the load in 
less than an hour. 
Asparagus is selling well, from $2 to $4 
per dozen for good to choice green, and 10 
to 25 per cent less for white. This cannot 
be taken as a fixed rule, however, as some 
still prefer the white, and will pay even 
more for it. The percentage of culls on the 
market, selling down to $1 per dozen, shows 
that there are many commercial patches 
either starved or misused otherwise. 
Too Many. —Out of upwards of 600 pro¬ 
duce dealers in New York and vicinity there 
are less than 100 to whom I should care to 
give credit, and if shipping fruits, vege¬ 
tables or dairy products regularly the list 
would be thinned to 10 or less. This state¬ 
ment is made as a result of 10 years’ ob¬ 
servation of the produce trade, during which 
time some part of Die market section has 
been visited practically every working day. 
A reasonable amount of competition is a 
good thing for trade, hut there are far too 
many commission merchants for the good 
of either producers or consumers. As in 
the past the writer will he glad to give by 
mail to any reader the names of one or two 
houses at present considered standard in 
their special lines. The number of genuine 
dead beats in this business, who pay for 
nothing that they get, appears to be less 
than formerly, but there is another class 
paying part of their bills, that are still 
more dangerous, as they are able to get a 
great amount of stuff on which they expect 
to make from 10 to 50 per cent above legit¬ 
imate profits. Some of these people were 
formerly in other lines of trade on the East 
Side, in which they heat every customer 
more or less, but seeing the opportunities 
in the produce business they have camped 
on that section to the detriment of all who 
would like to do business on the square. 
Idle Freight Cars. —On the first of M&y 
there were 413,300 idle cars in this coun¬ 
try, about one-fifth of the total freight car 
equipment. The greatest surplus was in 
coal cars, but there was a marked increase 
in the number of idle box cars used for 
general commercial purposes. This falling 
off in revenue is a serious matter for the 
railroads, and they naturally look to the 
easiest and quickest remedy, an advance in 
freight rates, an action that will not tend 
to soothe the feelings of the public at this 
time. It looks as though the “high and 
mighty” policy successfully used by many 
railroads for a long time was a failure, and 
there is no doubt that a 10 or 15 per cent 
advance in freight rates will stir up a lot 
of adverse legislation. But instead of in¬ 
creasing rates many of these roads ought to 
increase their force of industrial agents— 
not land boomers who get people to settle 
along their lines and then rob them with 
high charges and poor service—but men with 
the faculty for getting around among peo¬ 
ple and working up business that will bene¬ 
fit both the road and the farmer. One 
man of this kind is worth more to the roads 
than several high-salaried officials whose 
chief efforts are to increase dividends re¬ 
gardless of how much the public is “soaked” 
in consequence. A railroad should pay divi¬ 
dends, but these ought to be the result of 
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THE ONLY TEST. 
It was made at Our Request. 
Official Test made at Lewis & Clark 
Exposition. 
Portland, Ore., Oct. 21, 1905. 
Jury of Awards, Lewis & Clark 
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Cream, 29 per et. butterfat. 
Whole Milk, 4.4 per ct. “ 
Skim Milk .01 per ct. “ 
Rated capacity, 450 lbs.; actual ca¬ 
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Assistant Commissioner. 
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THE PROOF. 
Fargo, N. Dak., Nov. 29th. 
Iowa Dairy Separator Co. 
Waterloo, Iowa. 
Gentlemen:—We are pleased to re¬ 
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Name of separator. Iowa Dairy; temperature 
Of milk, 60; tarns of crank per minute, 60; ra¬ 
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cream, 23 per cent; test of skim milk, .02 per 
cent. Name of separator, Iowa Dairy; tem- 
S erature of milk. 90; turns of crank per minute, 
!; rated capacity, 450: actual capacity, 490; 
test of cream. 65 per cent; test of skim milk, 
.0125 per cent. In the tests made on this date 
the separator did very satisfactory work. No¬ 
tice date which refers to winter skimming. 
W. B. RICHARDS, 
Assistant Professor of Animal Husbandry. 
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Temperature of milk, 60; rated capa¬ 
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