The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-04-11
High Character Of the Worlds Fair
Dairy Tests.

UoSwo0A tue Dreeus nelO at On1cag0,
from May 18th to October goth, 1898,
will bear testimony to their thorough.
ness, their impartiality and the grand
work that was accomplished in the in.
terest 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 few days or a week, but so
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 dairyman is not keeping cows
for what they can accomplish in week,
on forced diet, but rather what they
are capable of doing throughout the
whole year, under rational feeding, and
what the met profit" is which they will
place to the credit of his bank account.
The latter element was essentially the
crucial one of the tests, as all the de-
cisions were based on the cows and
breeds Showing the greatest net profit"
The COWS and breeds were credited with
their products and debited with their
feed. The former consisted in Test No.
l, 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
price fixed by the scoring of same by
the same experts as in the cheese test,
OF solids other than butter fat, at So per
100 lbs, and of in crease in live weight
in test No. 3, of butter alone.
A strict account was kept of all the
feed, which was charged at 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 presence of a
representative of the Testing committee.
Columbian guards were stationed in the
barns day and night, to see that no feed
was given the cows except in the pres
ence of the representatives of the Test.
ing committee.
1t will thus be seen that every feature
of dairying formed factor in these
tests: quantity of milk in Test No. l.,
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 the herds was taken
daily, and analysed by competent staff
of chemists, under the direct control of
Prof. E. H. 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 immed.
late and personal supervision of Prof. s.
M. Babcock or I. P. Roberts, two mem.
bers of the Testing committee.
In scoring the butter and cheese, the
expert judges had no means of identity
ing the packages they were examining.
After marking their scores, they trans.
mitted the packages to Chief Buchanan,
who, after examining same, removed
the names of the scorers and transmitted
the packages to the Testing committee,
who entered the scores, taking the aver.
age 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. M
Babcock, wisconsin, Experiment Station
Prof. H. P. Armsby, State College, Pa.
Superintendent H. H. Kinds, represent.
ing the American Short. Horn Breeders
Association; Prof. W. H. Caldwell, rep.
resenting the American Guernsey Cattle
Club, and V. E. Fuller, representing the
American Jersey Cattle Club. Meetings
OF the Testing committee were held
daily. The high character of the gentle
men representing the Association OF
Agricultural College and Experiment
Stations, their well.known ability and
probity, testify to the disinterested
character of the work performed in the
tests. Their knowledge of the subject
warranted scientific application when
such was advisable, coupled with prac
tical deductions, SO that the tests salts.
fed both the scientific and practical
views of dairying. All the members OF
the committee were throughout fair and
impartial, and were actuated by the sole
desire to have the rules carried out and
justice done to all breeds.
These tests were the most prolonged
the most thorough, the most fair and
impartial that have ever been held in
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