The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-10-15
THE DAIRY.
THE HIGH CHARACTER OF THE
WORLDS FAIR DAIRY TESTS.

Any n familiar with the great tests
between the breeds held at Chicago,
from May 18th to Oct goth, 1898. will
bear testimony to their thoroughness.
their impartiality and the grand work
that was accomplished in the interest
of dairy science. These tests gave to
the COWS and breeds participating
therein an opportunity to demonstrate
their dairy characteristics. They were
not tests of a few days or a week, but
go prolonged that they exhibited to
public scrutiny the staying qualities
of the COWS and breeds. This feature
cannot be too strongly commended, as
the practical dairy man is not keeping
COWS for what they a accomplish IN
q week, on a forced diet, but rather
what they are capable ofdoing through
out the whole year, under rational
feeding, and what the met Proht' H
which they will place to the credl5 Oh
his bank account. The latter clement
was essentially the crucial one OF the
tests, as all the decisions we're DaSeo
on the COWS and breeds showing the
GREATEST net profit" The COWS and
breeds were credited with their prod
ucts and debited with their feed. The
former consisted in Test No. 1, OF
cheese, the price Of which was fixed
according to the scoring of same (Which
was done by experts appointed by
Chief Buchanan), of whey, at the rate
of s cents per hundred pounds, and OF
the increase in live weight. at Al cents
per pound in Test No. 2, of the butter.
at a price fixed by the scoring of
same by the same experts as In
the cheese test, of solids other than
butter fat, at 81 per 100 lbs and of in
crease in live weight; in test No. 8, of
butter alone.
A strict account was kept of all the
feed, which vas charged at a schedule
price fixed by Chief Buchanan, with
the consent of the representatives of
the breeds prior to the tests beginning.
and could only be fed in the pres 9nce
of a representative of the Testing Com
mittee. Columbian Guards were sta
toned in the barns day and night, to
see that no feed was given the COWS
except in the presence of the represen
tatives of the Testing Committee.
It will thus be seer that every fea-
ture of dairyiDg formed a factor in
these tests: quantity of milk in Test
No, 1, through the whey and cheese,
quantity of milk in Test No. 2, through
the solids other than butter fat, and
butter in Tests Nos. 2 and 8.
A sample of the milk of each COW
and the mixed milk of her herds was
taken daily, and analy zed by a compe-
tent staff of chemists, under the direct
control OF Prof. E II Harrington, of
Illinois; and a determination of the fat
In the milk was made by the Babcock
oil test each day, and each COW credited
with her proper proportion Of the
products.
The milk was creamed, and the
cream churned in the dairy, under the
immediate and personal supervision Of
Prof S. NJ. Babe cz or L. P. Roberts,
two members Of the Testing Commit
tee.
In scoring the butter and cheese, the
expert judges had no means of identi
flying the packages they were examin
ing. After marking their scores, they
transmitted the packages to Chief Blu
chanan, who, after examining same,
rnpnnUo6 tho nnr1nI ~ %Lo 100000 -
transmitted the packages to the Testing
Committee, who entered the scores,
taking the average of the three experts.
The Testing Committee consisted of
the following professors, representing
the Association of the Agricultural
Colleges and Experiment Stations
Prof M. A. Scovell, kentucky Expert
ment Station, Chairman; Prof. 1. P
Roberts, Cornell University; Prof. s
N. Babcock, Wisconsin Experiment
Station; Prof. H. P. Armsby, State
College, Pa; Superintendents Fl. n.
Kinds. representing the American
Short-Horn Breeders Association.
Prof. ". H. Caldwell, representing
the American. Guernsey Cattle Club
and V. E. Fuller, representing the
American Jersey Cattle Club. Meet.
ings of the Testing COMMITTEES were
held daily. The high character of the
gentlemen representing the AssociatioD
of Agricultural Colleges and Experi
menG Stations, their we'll known ability
and probity, testify to the disinteresteC
character of the work performed in tn,
tests. Their knowledge of the subiec
warranted scientific application whel
such vas advisable, coupled with prac
tical deductions, so that the tests salts