The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1913-11-21
THAT MILKING CONTEST
AT THE COUNTY FAIR
Editor Tribune:

Editor Tribune:
Two rules governing the contest
were as follows: (Under Sec. y "Ac-
curate accounts of the feed shall be
kept by the supervisor of the test and
the feeding shall take place in his
presence"
(Under Sec. 100 "The basis for COM
putting results shall be IS cents per
cwt. for milk and 80 cents per pound
for fat" Handicaps were allowed for
age and lactation. The Holstein COW
was entitled to handicap for years
of age lacking rs days. The table
giving her handicap for rs years OF
age gave S fb of fat IFS fb of milk
for years of age a fb fat and 10 fb
of milk From these two data the
exact handicap can be computed She
gave during the two days l04.1 fb' OF
milk and 2.8O3 I'd of fat. These fig
ures are the corrected figures given by
Prof. ireland. He and Prof. Rinehart
being the supervisors. When Prof
Rinehart made the award he stated
that the calculations had been made
on the basis of Is cents per cwt. for
milk and also stated that the IS cents
mentioned in the rules was mis-
print. More than one witness heard
him so state. Making the calculation
on this basis of rs cents per cwt. for
milk gives the Holstein credit of
$3.50 for the two days.
The table for lactation, which gave
the Jersey COW her handicap, was in
error at the point where her time of
lactation was given. The calculation
was based on this error, it having es-
capped the notice of the judges, and
SO gave the award to the Holstein
COW But, two weeks after the fair,
when the figures, giving the yields of
the various cows, were published the
writer discovered the error in the ta-
bles and making the calculations with
the error corrected found that the
Jersey led the Holstein. Using the
figures given by Prof Ireland, which
were for the Jersey 57.3 ID of milk
and 3.27l fb of fat with handicap of
2679o Of her production, gave her a
credit Of $l.4l4 for the two days Of
the test. The 11o day handicap was
used. The table of handicaps at this
point gave for COW ITO days in milk
1850 increase of her production, for
l2O days 1880, for 1870 days 2i.2%
and for lao days $500. The figures
for l2O days and 100 days are assured
ly wrong. Prof. Ireland agreed that
they were. Using the variation in
! per centage for each ten days given
where the figures are correct we find
that for 119 days, 26.79o is tn. correct
handicap. Prof. Ireland's attention
was called to this mistake more than
two weeks ago. Prof. Rinehart hap
pened to be in the vicinity of Caldwell
at the time and / am quite sure was
informed on the same day. As | had
gone to Prof. Ireland and frankly
called his attention to the error | ex-
pected them to inform me in the same
frank manner of the result Of their
conference on the matter. Not so,
however. | am left to conjecture. AS
the matter now stands the Jersey COW
is entitled to the award; she having
beaten the Holstein by 2 cents and 5
mills during the two days. This is
based, remember ,on the rule adopted
at the fair in making the award. The
IS cents for skinned milk having
been declared misprint and the rule
in regard to feed having been ignored.
w. F. BOULTON.