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THE R UR. A. Is NEW-YORKEK 
April 15, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
THAT CELEBRATED GUERNSEY CASE, 
Did Missy Give Nine per Cent Milk ? 
No. I. 
Our readers are somewhat familiar 
with the case of the Guernsey cow. 
Missy of the Glen. Mr. Hammond, the 
lawyer for Mr. Taylor, owner of Missy, 
begins on page 506 an argument for his 
side of the case. The whole thing rests 
upon reports first of the record which 
it is claimed Missy made, and of a spe¬ 
cial committee appointed by tbe Guern¬ 
sey Cattle Club to investigate this rec¬ 
ord. The report of this committee is a 
long one, printed in the annual volume 
of the club. We intend to analyze it, for 
this contest has developed into one of 
the most important questions that has 
come up in the history of cattle testing. 
First, we give the record which Mr. 
Taylor and Mr. Hammond claim for this 
cow: 
Butter 
Butter 
Milk, 
fat, 
fat, 
Month. 
lbs. 
per cent. 
lbs. 
Nov., 
1908. 
1,067.46 
4.73 
50.49 
Dec., 
1908. 
1,159.9 
4.68 
53.86 
Jan., 
1909. 
1,190.4 
5.11 
61.14 
Feb., 
1909. 
1,089.20 
6.17 
67.20 
Mar., 
1909. 
1,164.10 
5.24 
61.00 
Apr., 
1909. 
1.177.5 
0.90 
81.25 
May, 
1909. 
1,331.4 
5.75 
76.56 
June, 
1909. 
1,326.6 
6.30 
83.58 
July, 
1909. 
1,372.70 
7.15 
98.15 
Aug., 
1909. 
1,371.7 
6.50 
89.16 
Sept., 
1909. 
1,226.7 
7.21 
88.45 
Oct., 
1909. 
1,151.20 
9.07 
104.41 
Nov., 
1909. 
1,033.3 
8.71 
90.00 
Bred 
in May, 1909. 
Any 
man who 
has ever 
milked 
a cow 
will consider it remarkable that Missy 
should give more milk in October, nearly 
six months after being bred, than she 
did in December, 10 months before, and 
with this great How of milk actually 
produce over nine per cent of fat. We 
think all will admit that Guernsey breed¬ 
ers were justified in questioning this 
' record. The special committee was ap¬ 
pointed to investigate and see whether 
this high testing milk was genuine and 
fair. 
Samples of Missy’s milk were tested 
on November 26 to 30, 1909, by repre¬ 
sentatives of the Massachusetts and the 
New Hampshire stations. Those tests 
were continued until November 30 by a 
Rhode Island inspector. The first two 
experts found 4.8857 per cent fat. The 
cow was then suffering from foot rot, 
but both she and her test companion 
“were eating their grain and giving very 
close to their normal flow of milk.” You 
will see how much lower this test is to 
the 8.71 per cent claimed for all the 
cow’s milk in November. A sample of 
the milk claimed to have been produced 
by this cow on December 1 was sent to 
the Massachusetts Station for analysis. 
It was found to contain: 
Fat . 8.98 per cent 
Solids, not tat. 8.83 per cent 
Protein . 3.44 per pent 
Ash .69 per cent 
This milk was so abnormal in its com¬ 
position that Prof. Smith said when re¬ 
porting this test: 
If they continue to get high tests at this 
farm it might be well to adopt the Ilolstein 
Friesian plan of keeping a cow under con¬ 
stant supervision for 24 hours, and it might 
be well to search the milker before he milks 
the cow. 
Now the whole point of this contro¬ 
versy is—was that sample of milk just 
what the cow gave or was it tampered 
with in some way? That was what this 
special committee started to find out. 
Leading dairy chemists and authorities 
were consulted, and the report states 
that this analysis “suggested to many of 
them that cream had been added to the 
milk.” Only two of these opinions are 
quoted in the committee’s report. Copies 
of the replies that were made by these 
experts have been received. ITere is the 
exact version of one of them beside that 
published by the committee: 
Prof. F. W. Wo 11 of the University of 
Wisconsin : 
“If the specific gravity of the sample has 
been determined, we would be in much bet¬ 
ter shape to pass an opinion on whether or 
not this milk could be considered normal, 
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 
[ take it was the ease, since it was made 
by an official of an experiment station.'’ 
Quotation by Committee : 
“If the specific gravity of the sample had 
been determined we should be in much bet¬ 
ter shape to pass an opinion on whether or 
not this milk could be considered normal, 
but from the composition given it see?ns 
certain to me that the milk must hare been 
adulterated, which I take it was not. the 
case, since it was made by an official of an 
experiment station.” 
Then Prof. Woll adds: 
“Without knowing anything about the 
conditions under which this test was con- l 
ducted, or about the men responsible for the 
testing of the cow. I must say that it looks 
evident to me that there is something wrong 
and that you will be justified in throwing I 
out the test. It is very unfortunate if in 
a case of this kind all possible steps were 
not taken to verify the results of the tests 
by keeping watch of the cow throughout 
the monthly test, and by having h.er re¬ 
tested by another set of officials. This may, 
of course, have been done for all I know, 
, but you do not give any information in your 
letter that would lead one to suppose that 
such extra precautions were taken in this 
case. 
We cannot understand why this com¬ 
mittee should misquote Prof. Woll and 
make him say such an idiotic thing as 
this sentence credits to him. And why 
should they leave out the last part of 
Prof. Woll’s letter which is a clear 
opinion from one of the highest dairy 
authorities in the world that the milk 
is suspicious and reflects suspicion upon 
the test? We should all go after the 
truth of this matter, and not try to take 
any petty or technical advantage. 
If there is any man in the world who 
should know what normal milk is Dr. S. 
M. Babcock, of Wisconsin, is the man. 
His opinion regarding this remarkable 
fluid is as follows: 
The analyses of milk, which you sub¬ 
mitted, 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 protein content is not as high as 
would be expected 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, 1 should suspect 
that cream had been added in this case. 
Prof. J. L. Hills, of Vermont, another 
high authority, said among other things: 
If I were shown an analysis of this char¬ 
acter, quite apart from any explanation, and 
asked what it seemed to me to be, I should 
say it seemed to me like an analysis of 
milk carrying an undue amount of cream, 
cither an incorrect sample or a sample to 
which had been added some, extraneous 
cream. The most I can say about this case 
is that if it is correct, it is the most extra¬ 
ordinary case I have ever met. It seems to 
me that it behooves the club to be extreme¬ 
ly careful and to be extremely certain of 
the facts before they put them out. 
Next week we shall go on and give 
other testimony from prominent authori¬ 
ties, and then take up other features of 
this report. _ 
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