The record-union., 1892-10-05

on the 10th and 18th of September, and
the four milkings weighed and tested as
follows:
FIRST COW.
151% lbs. milk testing 2.8 per cent. butter fat
20 lbs. milk testing 3 per cent. butter fat.
225I Ds milk testing 3 per cent. butter fat
70 tbs milk, 2.41l lbs. butter.
SECOND COW.
12]& MS milk testing 4 per cent. butter fat
12 fDS milk testing 3.S per cent butter fat
13 tbs. milk testing per cent. butter fat.
: 271a lbs. milk, 1 $50 ibs. butter.
THIRD COW.
1596 fbs. milk testing 3.2 per cent butter fat
IA fbs. milk testing SO per cent butter fat.
10 lbs. milk testing "a per cent. butter tat.
50 fbs. milk, 1.SO9 lbs. butter
Balance had not pedigree entered on
Secretary's book.
FOURTH cow
197a tbs. milk testing 3.8 per cent. butter fat
IS lis. milk testing 3 per cent butter tat
II bs. milk testing 3.2 per cent. butter fat
Is lbs. milk testing 81 per cent. butter fat
7214 tbs. milk, 2.383 fbs. butter
FIFTH COW.
16 bs milk testing 90 per cent. butter fat.
1Sa lbs milk testing 80 per cent. butter fat.
165a lbs. milk testing per cent butter fat
6s1a lbs. milk, 2.257 fos. butter
SIXTH COW.
81 1bs milk testing Ia per cent butter fat
21 bs. milk testing 81 per cent. butter fat.
121I lbs. milk testing 20 per cent butter fat
l71a lbs. milk testing 3.2 per cent. butter tat.
591a lbs. milk, 1911 rs. butter
The test Of the last cow is worthy of
note, showing by her small yield at first
milking, as compared with the second,
that she held up her milk, and also show
ing, by the small percentage of butter
fat in that milking, that the cream is
mainly in the strippings. To make up
her average at that milking she should
have given seven pounds more, and to
make up average quality that seven
pounds should have yielded about per
cent. butter fat, instead OF the Ia per cent.
yielded by the eight and half pounds of
milk drawn at that time. In testing her
milk quart by quart as 1t is drawn it will
probably be found that the last pound has
more butter fat than the first four
Again, it will be noticed that the cow that
was fourth in amount of butter gave less
than half the milk of any of the others
Probably she had been milked much
longer. Nothing was said about that in
the report. 1t has an important bearing.
and should be reckoned as an element in
awarding the prize.
The more familiar one grows with tests
the stronger becomes his conviction that
we know very little about milking quail
tiles without them.
y dairyman who had been thirty wears
in the business and was looked upon as
authority in dairy country, said that
he followed all the rules when he went to
buy cows for his dairy, and did not let
price stand in the way of buying COW
that suited him. Yet he thought he had
a hon hn hN,,
three that he cared to keep in his dairy,
after trial.
Next year let us hope to see twice as
many :Short-hornS contending for these
prizes, and Holsteins, Jerseys and Ayr
shires contending for similar prizes, all
under superintendence of an expert
dairyman, with latest improved appli-
ances.
TRoTTERs AND RUNNERS.
Rabbits are the great pest in many
parts of California, and such horses as
they call ''fuZz-tails' are almost as great
pest in other sections. The StdtiSticitn
shows that in the decade from 1870 to 1880
horses increased 40 per cent, and in the
next ten years about the same. In the
meantime population had increased only
little more than half as rapidly. Cable
and electric cars had almost superseded
horse cars and largely reduced trade of
livery stables in our cities. Traction en-
harvester, and the extension of railroads
had left many freight wagon to rust and
decay. In the sage brush country they
have turned out some good bands of
American horses that have grown wilder
than deer and coyotes, degenerated in
size, and some of them developed dispo-
sition about as docile as that of a zebra.
Once in while by cunning, stratagem
or tedious pursuit they gather IN a band
of them, select few of the best, that
they are able TO sell all somewhere
from 81 80 TO S25 each, and turn the
rest out to breed pests again. One
who buys one of these range horses
viii find him hardy and active, and
sometimes he will yield To treatment and
become a valuable animal. Very often
the horse is killed or disabled or the man
severely hurt in breaking, and a LARGE
percentage never become safe enough to
acquire value. Every time lot of these
horses are sold, as they were at the fair
grounds the other day at from SIO to so
each, it helps TO break the horse market
and takes more from the price of some
good horse than they get for the scrub.
In the meantime that horse has eaten the
feed that might have raised big steer or
ten sheep and gone to flood the market in
8 State where almost every farmer has
more horses than he knows what to do
with eating their heads off in his pasture
The class of horses that attract from 90
to 90 per cent. of all the attention at our
fairs are not, for ordinary service, great
improvement on the fuzz tails Their
worth is measured by capacity to win
money. When they bring a trotter ont
for race he has so many extra appli-
ances that any business man would con-
slider the trouble of keeping them in or
der was more than the use OF the horse
was worth How large share of the
runners would any of us want to buy for
his wife to drive or to plow in his gar
den or work on a harvester?
An expert jockey can hardly keep some
of them inside the fences of the race-track.
Once in a while world-beater sells foI
some fabulous sum, but the one man that
makes is as hard to find as the ten that
lose on fast horses. After all what has
the breeding of fast horses added to the
actual wealth-producing capacity of the
stock
The farmer who takes twenty minutes