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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 15, 
MR. TAYLOR'S SIDE OF THE GUERNSEY 
COW CASE. 
Part I. 
There has been brought to my atten¬ 
tion a letter which was published in 
your edition of February 25, signed 
“Fred B. Rice, Massachusetts,” and en¬ 
titled “Let the Cows Prove It,” which, 
in the interests of justice, should be 
answered. 
The secretary of the American Guern¬ 
sey Cattle Club, about April 28, 1910, 
wrote to various experts, giving an an¬ 
alysis made by a chemist of the Massa¬ 
chusetts Station from a sample taken 
from one day’s milking. The secretary's 
letter appears to state that the sample 
was taken from the milk of the entire 
month. The experts were requested to 
comment on the analysis, and were asked, 
“Do you consider that this milk is out¬ 
side the limit of variation which might 
be expected in cases where cows are 
forced to high production when so close 
to calving?” The secretary failed to 
state that he was present when the high 
test was made. For some reason the 
chemist neglected to take a specific grav¬ 
ity test, perhaps the most important step 
in connection with the analysis, and Mr. 
Rice accordingly omits this sentence 
from Prof. Woll's letter: 
“If the specific gravity of the sample had 
been determined, we would be in much bet¬ 
ter shape to pass an opinion on whether or 
not this milk could be considered nor¬ 
mal * * 
And also he omitted the following sig¬ 
nificant sentence from Prof. Eckle’s let¬ 
ter : 
If the cow was pushed to the limit it 
would be x - easonable to expect more fluc¬ 
tuation in the composition of her milk 
than would be the case if she was fed 
moderately, and it might be possible under 
strain of abnormal condition for the milk 
to be produced at one milking. 
Missy was of course pushed to the 
limit, and in addition was just recover¬ 
ing from a severe attack of hoof rot and 
a high fever; the conditions were cer¬ 
tainly “abnormal.” Mr. Rice omits quo¬ 
tations from the letters of other experts 
who were consulted. Prof. Rasmussen 
of the New Hampshire Station, in his 
letter, quoted from Jansen’s “Milk Hy¬ 
giene” the record of a cow which he 
states shows as unusual a variation as 
Missy’s: 
The per cent of fat in the milk of a cow 
during the lactation period increased from 
3.033 per cent to 8.30 per cent, a difference 
of 5.20 per cent. The solids not fat in¬ 
creased only from 8.14 per cent to 9 per 
cent. 
The letter concludes as follows: 
It is another step in advance, bringing 
forth new evidences of the great variation 
and the great individuality in dairy cows, 
and establishing a new record with refer¬ 
ence to per cent of fat in cow's milk. I 
congratulate the Guernsey Cattle Club on 
finding another such remarkable cow. 
Prof. Rasmussen was one of the check 
testers at the end of November, so that 
his opinion necessarily carries far more 
weight than that of experts who did not 
know the facts. 
club, when the record was complete, is¬ 
sued the regular certificate and published 
a statement in part as follows: 
During the year the supervision and 
testing was conducted by the Rhode Island 
Agricultural Experiment Station, and the 
inspections were made by two different in¬ 
spectors ; during the year the home tests 
made and the regular tests, each month 
agree so closely that the splendid work the 
cow was doing was substantiated. * * * 
At the close of the year's work, Mr. L. F. 
Herrick, of Worcester, and the Secretary 
of the American Guernsey Cattle Club, 
were present, when at noon the cow tested 
9.3 per cent fat. She was then giving 
10 pounds at a milking, the total being 
31.G pounds for the day. 
Two breeders, after the record was 
made, instead of communicating their 
suspicions to the owner of the cow, at¬ 
tacked the record before the executive 
committee as physically impossible and 
probably fraudulent. Several sessions 
were held by the executive committee to 
consider the matter, no charges were 
filed but the record was marked as held 
pending investigation. The executive 
committee directed that the cow be re¬ 
entered. Against his protest, as Missy 
was entitled to a rest, Mr. Taylor or¬ 
dered a re-test. During the first month 
of her re-test, in spite of the fact that 
she had been pushed to the limit for 
over a year, the cow made more milk and 
more butter fat than during the corre¬ 
sponding month of the original test. 
When giving over 40 pounds a day, she 
lay down in a wet pasture, her udder be¬ 
came inflamed, and she dropped the next 
day to one pound. Her udder became 
seriously affected, and no further test 
was possible. 
At the club meeting last May an open 
attack was made on the record. It was 
proposed to appoint a sub-committee of 
the executive committee to investigate. 
Two members of the executive commit¬ 
tee thereupon refused to serve, stating 
in effect that the committee had been 
biased against the records. Mr. Scoville, 
a member of the executive committee (p. 
42, Minutes of Annual Meeting) spoke 
as follows: 
“As an interested party I think I per¬ 
haps have a right to be heard. I think 
that it probably would be wise to refer 
this matter to some sort of a jury to hear 
the evidence. I have a feeling that Mr. 
Taylor thinks we have been more or less 
partisan in this matter, and that is more 
or less true, because until very recently 
only one side of this case has been actively 
presented to our attention. We have heard 
so much of this thing that I think I am 
within the limit of truth in saying that no 
member of the executive committee could 
possibly approach this matter in a perfectly 
fair-minded way.” 
President Codman : “I beg pardon?” 
Mr. Scoville: “I think that no member 
of the executive committee could hear this 
evidence in a perfectly open-minded way.” 
President Codman: “I quite disagree 
with you there.” 
Mr. Scoville: “Well, I can’t. Anyway, 
I'm going to Europe next week (laughter). 
I think that if Mr. Taylor would select one 
member, and let his opponents select an¬ 
other member, and these two agree on the 
third member, and the evidence were pre¬ 
sented in a perfectly fair way, that we 
would arrive at a decision inside of a week. 
Mr. Hammond complains that he has not had 
a chance to confront his accusers; we 
ought to give him an opportunity before 
this matter is disposed of entirely.” 
JOHN HENRY IIAMMOXD. 
Prof. Michels, in his letter, stated: 
It is my opinion that a cow forced for 
either short or long periods and fed under 
abnormal conditions, it is no more than 
reasonable to suppose that her system also 
is in an abnormal condition as the result 
of such feeding and that the milk yields 
as well as the composition of the milk 
will be abnormal. 
Prof. Wing stated in part as follows: 
The best evidence we have is authentic 
records of what has been actually found, 
and such I judge you consider the analysis 
quoted to be. As to whether this was ab¬ 
normal and caused by forced feeding, I 
think wo should have to be very careful 
about expressing an opinion. I should not 
care to say what might or might not be 
expected of a cow in respect to her milk or 
fat production, that was fed to an extreme 
limit. 
CHR. HANSEN’S 
DANISH BUTTER COLOR 
The charge that cream may have been 
added to the milk is easy to make, and 
fortunately easily disproved, as the sec¬ 
retary of the club was present when the 
highest test was made, as well as Mr. 
Herrick, of Worcester, Mass. Mr. Her¬ 
rick had stated that he had never seen a 
very high test and doubted tlieir accu¬ 
racy, and he was invited to supervise. 
He testified that he watched every detail 
and that the test was absolutely correct. 
The inspector, who also watched every 
detail and made the test, is a man of ex¬ 
cellent reputation. The inspector for 
the preceding months was at the Univer¬ 
sity of Wisconsin in April, 1910, at 
the time Professors Woll’s, Eckles’ and 
Babcock’s letters were written. It has 
been “shown beyond any reasonable 
doubt that the samples were taken under 
conditions which make it absolutely im¬ 
possible for any error to have been 
made,” and “the supervision was be¬ 
yond question,” as required by Profes¬ 
sors Eckles and Babcock. 
Let me now state briefly the contro¬ 
versy resulting in the final establishment 
of the record: The secretary of the j 
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(Test Subject, "Select ” Jersey Cow.) 
Left hand diagram shows results of feeding the cow “Select” on Corn Silage ration for 15 days. 
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