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"\PHEJ RURAb NEW-YORKER 
February 25. 
Live Stock and Dairy 
“LET THE COWS PROVE IT.” 
THe editorial in The R. N.-Y. of 
January 28, under the title, “Let the 
Cows Prove It,” has attracted wide at¬ 
tention, and was certainly a very mod¬ 
erate and conservative statement, and 
makes it plain that there is something 
still due the club from Mr. Taylor. The 
details of this controversy would per¬ 
haps occupy more space than you could 
devote to this subject at this time, but 
in support of the demand that the cows 
“come back,” it will, perhaps, be in¬ 
teresting to consider one of the many 
circumstances brought out in this in¬ 
vestigation. 
It will be recalled that the abnormal 
percentage of butter fat in the milk of 
“Missy of the Glen” was the basis of 
her high record. The production of 
milk, although large, was not phe¬ 
nomenal, while the percentages of but¬ 
ter fat were so high as to be altogether 
without precedent in any cow of any 
breed producing a similar flow of milk. 
The secretary of the club caused a com¬ 
posite sample of the milk from which 
the November test was made, to be ana¬ 
lyzed. This analysis was as follows: 
Total solids . 
Wof . . . o.Jo yo 
Solids not fat . **.83 % 
Ash . 0.686% 
Proteids (Nx6%) . 3.44 % 
It showed the milk to be abnormal, 
and Mr. Caldwell accordingly submitted 
a statement of the production of the 
cow for the year, together with the feed 
given, and the result of this analysis, 
to the foremost dairy experts of the 
country. From the replies received it is 
sufficient, perhaps, to quote from three 
or four of the highest recognized au¬ 
thorities on dairy matters in this coun¬ 
try. Prof. F. W. Woll stated as fol¬ 
lows: 
I have your letter of the 27th (April, 
1910), relative to the tests made of the 
Guernsey cow credited with the production 
of 054.76 pounds of butter fat, and an 
average test of 6.54 per cent, for the year. 
The record of this cow and the analysis of 
the sample reported was so out of the ordi¬ 
nary that it is difficult to see how they can 
be explained satisfactorily. I don’t believe 
that a sample of milk from a cow yielding 
over 80 pounds a day can possibly test 9 
per cent, fat, and only 8.83 per cent, solids 
not fat and .69 per cent ash. This analysis 
shows that the milk was of an entirely 
abnormal composition, both on account of 
the high fat content accompanied by the 
large milk yield, and the low percentage of 
solids not fat, ash and protein in the milk. 
* * * * But from the composition 
given, it seems certain to me that the milk 
must have been adulterated with cream, 
provided, of course, that the analysis was 
made correctly, which I take it was the 
case, since it was made by an official of 
an experiment station. 
Prof. C. H. Eckles said, under date of 
May 3, 1910: 
I am in receipt of your letter of April 
28, asking for my opinion in regard to the 
record made by one of your advanced regis¬ 
ter cows. The analyses of the milk cer¬ 
tainly appear to be very abnormal, espe¬ 
cially in view of the fact that the cow 
at the time this sample was taken was pro¬ 
ducing as much milk as in the beginning. 
M.y observation has been that when a cow 
holds up in her milk, she does not increase 
in the per-cent, of fat even at the last end 
of the milking period. The high per cent, 
of fat only comes when she declines rapidly. 
During' the past three years we have 
made complete chemical analyses of about 
1,100 samples of milk, in co-operation with 
the Dairy Division, United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., 
with cows of various breeds and under 
various conditions. Among these samples 
the per cent, of fat has at no time equaled 
the solids not fat, as was the case in the 
sample of milK you reported. Even in the 
most abnormal milk we have analyzed the 
solids not fat exceeded the fat 2.13 per 
cent. 1 am furthermore struck by the. ap¬ 
parently low. per cent, of protein as given 
in the chemical analysis. Our experiments 
indicate that when the per cent, of fat goes 
up, due to the advance in the period of 
lactation, that the protein goes up in about 
the same proportion. In fact, on the 
average, it goes up a little more than the 
fat in relation to the normal. In this 
analysis reported, however, the per cent, 
of protein is even lower than we have 
found in the last end of the milking period 
of many cows. * * * 
My candid opinion in regard to this 
test is that if accepted, there will always 
remain serious question as to its accuracy 
in the minds of those who are competent 
to judge, unless it can be shown beyond 
any reasonable doubt that the samples were 
taken under conditions which make it abso¬ 
lutely impossible for any error to have 
been made. 
milk, which you submitted, are outside of 
any analysis which I have seen, especially 
where the yield of milk has been as high 
as in this case. The analysis submitted 
is somewhat abnormal, in that the protein 
content is not as high as would be ex¬ 
pected from the high per cent, of fat. The 
same is true regarding the ash content. 
Usually where such high per cents, of fat 
are found, both the protein and ash are 
higher than is given in this analysis. The 
differences are exactly such as would be 
found if cream had been added to the 
milk, and unless the supervision of this 
test was beyond question, I should suspect 
that cream had been added in this case. 
There are certainly no men more com¬ 
petent to judge what this analysis in¬ 
dicated than those whose opinions have 
been quoted above. It will be seen that 
all agree that unless the most thorough 
supervision and verification has been 
provided, the tests should be thrown out 
as unreasonable. The facts are that no 
verification was ever made. When at¬ 
tempted by outside inspectors the per¬ 
centage of fat was found to be entirely 
normal in every case, running about five 
per cent. 
It therefore appears that the large re¬ 
ported production of “Missy of the 
Glen” rests wholly on an abnormal per¬ 
centage of fat which the best dairy ex¬ 
perts say should not be accepted without 
the fullest verification. Such attempts 
at verification as have already been 
made have failed completely to confirm 
the high percentages claimed. Mr. Tay¬ 
lor can certainly not expect any intelli¬ 
gent breeder to accept his records un¬ 
less he adopts at once the only possible 
method of making good his claims. Let 
him show to competent and disinterested 
inspectors some of these seven to nine 
per cent tests of cows giving over 30 
pounds per day! All the injunctions in 
the world to head off free discussion 
of this record will do nothing toward 
convincing breeders of its value. Such 
features of this test as this extraordin¬ 
ary analysis cannot be explained away. 
Nothing but a public demonstration of 
the ability of these cows to “come back” 
will free Glen Farm records from taint. 
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