1 Oct., 1902.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 251 
He will not always regard the matter of hauling as of no consequence —as 
something which he can do without cost. If the best disposition of cotton seed 
is finally demonstrated to be to extract the oil for human food and other 
commercial purposes, and let the meal and hulls go back to the farms to serve 
both as feed and fertiliser, then most likely there will be a small oil mill at each 
ginnery, and oil and lint will be the only products of the cotton crop sent to 
the market. 
‘The southern farmer, however, need not wait for oil mills. He may get 
the full value of his cotton seed by a judicious system of feeding, accompanied 
by the most careful saving and proper use of the manure.—The Editor, 
Florida Agriculturist. 
MILKING COMPETITION AT THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION’S 
EXHIBITION, 1902. - 
Great interest centred in the milking tests at the late Exhibition at Bowen 
Park. The three cows which were entered for the forty-eight hours’ trial were 
Mr. W. T. Beck’s Daisy, Mr. H. Chambers’s Rosebud, and Mr. J. Carr’s 
ollie. 
Rosebud, it should be mentioned, was driven from Yeerongpilly to the 
suow ground, a distance of over 7 miles, on the day before the milking test 
began. The following are the results :— 
Owner. Name of Cow. Weight of Milk. Bees c peed oe 
FIRST DAY. 
Mornine. 
; Lb. Lb. 
Mr. Beck af peek als veers Se: 20 3°8 "85 
Chambers ... | Rosebud... 138 4:2 “74 
Carr a ... | Nellie 122 70 1:00 
EVENING. 
Mr. Beck fi +o |MORS? an ay) 10 6°6 ‘73 
Chambers ... | Rosebud ... | oe 5:2 "88 
Carr én ... | Nellie 7 8:0 68 
SECOND DAY. 
Morninc. 
Mr. Beck rte se | LSE oe ie 144 3:2 | Gayt 
Chambers ...| Rosebud ... ‘| 163 42 | 78 
Carr tr ... | Nellie 11 58 ‘71 
EVENING. 
Mr. Beck yx | DESEN  _e or 12, | 4-2 “DT 
Chambers ... | Rosebud ... 165 | 50 93 
Carr o ... | Nellie 8} 63 “DS 
In Orper or Mrrir: Burrer Yrevp. 
Rosebud. Nellie. Daisy. 
First Day -t93 ve of ist: 1°62 1°68 158 
Second Day z wo bi a 171 1:29 1:08 
3°33 2:97 2°66 
Mr. H. Chambers’ Rosebud first for heaviest weight of milk in forty-eight hours—644 lb, 
Mr. J. Carr’s Nellie first for heaviest amount of butter at one milking—1 Ib. 
Tue AWARDS. 
The prizes in this division were thus awarded :— 
Cow yielding from one milking the largest quantity of butter fat (Babcock 
tester). First prize, £2; second prize, £1 (including £2 2s., presented by 
Messrs. Marshall and Slade).—J. Carr’s Nellie, 1 lb. weight at the morning 
milking on the 13th. Thurlow’s special prize, valued at £1 5s., under the 
same conditions, went to Mr. W. T. Beck’s Daisy. 
