1910. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
847 
REGISTERING A DEAD COW. 
A calf of a registered cow was not regis¬ 
tered. Her calf is eligible to register—as 
she was—but the mother of the present one 
is dead. Could papers be made out for her 
so that this one could be registered? If 
so, what would be the cost? a. s. 
^ New York. 
The American Jersey Cattle Club. 
The calf is eligible to registration under 
the regular rules of the Club, but the en¬ 
try of the dam will have to precede that 
of the calf. She being dead, this can be 
done for one dollar. The application for 
registry of the deceased dam should be 
made in the usual way, with the date of 
death of the cow, actual or approximate, 
added to the application. 
j. j. hum ini; wav. Secretary. 
The Holstein Friesian Association 
The practice in regard to recording dead 
animals is very circumspect. It requires 
the establishing of the facts set forth in 
the application for registry by oath of the 
applicant, and at least one other person 
of integrity. To accomplish this, an affi¬ 
davit as to the correctness of the facts set 
forth in the application, made before a jus¬ 
tice or notary or other magistrate, is at¬ 
tached to the application and such affidavit 
must contain the further statement “That 
the data given in said application for 
registry is from records duly kept in ac¬ 
cord with the By-Laws of the Holstein- 
Friesian Association of America, Art. 4, 
Sec. 14. It shall be the duty of each mem¬ 
ber and Other person registering cattle in 
this herd-book to keep, in a book devoted 
to this purpose alone, a complete and con¬ 
secutive record showing date of service, 
name and number of animal served, and 
name of sire used, and the date of calving, 
sex and color of the calf.” 
In some cases where diagrams of the 
color markings of the animals have not 
been preserved, this requirement may be 
waived; and if such is the fact, the affi¬ 
davit should set forth the reason for the 
omission of such diagrams of color mark¬ 
ings. Only the ordinary fees for animals 
over one year of age are required. 
S’. L. HOUGHTON, Secretary. 
Ayrshire Breeders’ Association. 
A dead cow can be registered, provided 
she was eligible to registry when living. 
To be eligible to registry in the Ayrshire 
Record, she must be able to trace her an¬ 
cestry in each branch to either a registered 
animal or to a reliable importation from 
Scotland. Y'our correspondent should first 
fill out an application for registry of the 
calf, and then one for the dam, and for 
each animal back of the calf that is not al¬ 
ready registered connecting the calf with 
registered stock. The cost to a member of 
the Ayrshire Breeders’ Association would 
be $1 for an animal under two years old, 
and $2 for an animal over two years old, 
with double rates for non-members. If it 
is an Ayrshire he wishes to record, his 
best way would be to fill out his papers 
as well as he can and forward them to me 
for inspection and information. 
c. m. winslow, Secretary. 
many years; have given all kinds of cows’ 
milk, and do not hesitate to state that as 
good results may be obtained with the milk 
of any other breed, not excluding the mon¬ 
grel, as from the Holstein. I believe, as a 
general rule, the Holstein milk contains 
less nutriment, less food value, than either 
the Jersey or the Guernsey milk. Chemis¬ 
try supports me in this belief. The value 
of'any milk must be based upon the amount 
of solids it contains; the water in which the 
solids are suspended or mixed has no more 
food value than that taken from the hy¬ 
drant, and anyone can add that as well as 
the cow. 
The writer does not seem to comprehend 
that there is a comparatively fixed ratio 
between the amount of fat and the other 
solid constituents in all grades of milk. A 
milk containing five per cent fat also con¬ 
tains proportionately more other solids, as 
casein, albumin, etc., than a milk contain¬ 
ing but three per cent fat, and now there¬ 
fore the "cream on the top of the bottle” 
is an indication of the food or money value 
of the milk. On averaging the records of 
the New York and New Jersey experiment 
stations a few years ago, it was found the 
solid ingredients in the Jersey cows’ milk 
were, total solids 14.87 per cent, of which 
5.10 per cent was fat and 9.68 per cent 
solids not fat. The Holstein cows’ average 
was 11.96 per cent total solids, of which 
3.43 per cent was fat and 8.53 per cent 
other solids. In fact, the Jersey, Guernsey, 
Short-horn and Ayrshire all gave a larger 
average of solids than the Holstein and, 
consequently, must be of more food value 
than the thinner milk. “The combination 
of fat, solids and water as found in the Hol¬ 
stein milk,” sounds very well, but accord¬ 
ing to our tables, the average of fat is be¬ 
low that of mothers’ milk, so that the 
"combination” fails to combine the re¬ 
quirements. The writer doubtless knows 
that the “combination” is not a fixed or 
permanent one, but varies throughout the 
whole period of lactation of the cow. As 
an illustration, a Guernsey cow that I had 
tested for 12 months varied from 4.7 per 
cent to 0.6 per cent fat. Now the 6.6 per 
cent milk was of more food value than the 
4.7 per cent, because it represented more 
heat and energy units and, also, more nitro¬ 
genous or proteid products for growth and 
repair. 
Anyone who has had experience in feed¬ 
ing infants is well aware that the green, 
curdled alyine discharges are not due usu¬ 
ally to thi> amount of fat the milk con¬ 
tains, but to the fermentation of the nitro¬ 
genous elements. This same condition may 
occur on a skim-milk diet. The sour-milk- 
like odor sometimes found with children 
and milk-fed invalids is not due to butter 
fat “biliousness,” but to changes in the pro¬ 
teid constituents. I presume the next claim 
for the Holstein cow may be she is produc¬ 
ing the MetehnikofT regeneration milk, bv a 
special mammary gland, adapted to that 
Specific purpose. J. P. CKKVELING. 
Cayuga Co.. N. Y\ 
Weakly Pigs. 
A few days ago a young sow had a litter 
of pigs; two of them were not able to 
stand and dragged their hind legs around 
for two or three days and then died. The 
sow has had tin 1 run of an orchard with 
good pasture, and has been fed with a view 
to keep her in good breeding condition. An¬ 
other young sow is due to farrow in a short 
time; what should be the treatment to 
prevent any loss on her part? Sows have 
had good dry sleeping quarters. 
j. it. w. 
Where sows are treated and fed as you 
state the cause of tin; weakness of the pigs 
cannot be confidently stated. Usually the 
sow is constipated from pampering and 
overfeeding, when pigs are affected in the 
way you describe. Where the sow is not 
in that condition the pigs may have been 
injured at time of birth, and that can 
scarcely be prevented. See that the sows 
are fed in such a way as to keep them 
muscular and witli their bowels active at 
farrowing time. Constipation is greatly to 
be dreaded. A. s'. A. 
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American Guernsey Cattle Club. 
Registration of a calf from an unregis¬ 
tered cow cannot be done in our registry. 
IVe accept nothing except the progeny of 
registered parents. In the instance you 
cite, where the dam was unregistered, and 
is now dead, if she was eligible for regis¬ 
try, she can now be registered just as if 
she were living, if, in addition to the ap¬ 
plication for entry, a certificate of death 
if filed with same. wm. h. caldwell. 
Am. Guernsey Cattle Club. 
THE VALUE OF HOLSTEIN MILK. 
Biliousness and Fat. 
I have just read the article on page 780 
entitled “Value of Holstein Milk.” If your 
paper went only to the hands of dairymen 
criticism would bo unnecessary, hut it goes 
also to the homes of many who know little 
or nothing of the chemistry, composition 
or comparative value of the different grades 
of milk. I therefore wish to call attention 
to one or two assertions made in the arti¬ 
cle. His success as a dairyman argues but 
little as to the comparative value of his 
milk; that is an Issue by itself. It docs, 
however, show that he is a careful, pru¬ 
dent, successful manager and man, and 
may he able to furnish milk at a less cost 
than many others, regardless of the breed 
of his herd. This may be clue to Ills knowl¬ 
edge in the details of milk production and 
disposal, general management and business 
ability. His statement regarding the food 
value of Holstein milk I believe is at vari¬ 
ance with demonstrated results. The as¬ 
sertion, “the doctors found that babies and 
very sick people could drink and digest Hol¬ 
stein milk” is not very complimentary to 
the doctors, as this they should have known, 
and surely did long before the writer went 
in the milk business, and also knew that 
“babies and very sick people” drank and 
digsted milk long before the Holstein cow 
came to this country. I have prescribed a 
diet for infants and the sick for a good 
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