TWO MARVELLOUS COWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1112, 27 April 1911, Page 8

TWO MARVELLOUS COWS.

14.0 AND 10.9 TESTS. • ' j (From Our Travelling Correspondent.) • "Have you ever seen a cow which gives ; a 11.0 test?" Thus a dairyman to me at | the Baetihi Show. Of course, I said i "No, nor has anybody else." "Well, you I can seeione at this show. Come along and t have'a look at her."' Wo wont, and saw an ordinary-looking animal. Over her I pen was, of course, the blue card, and ( a paper, on which it was stated she gave [ 30. pounds of milk and a 11.0 lest. In ! t the next pen was another cow; on her j. ! paper, it said that she also gave 2{i pounds [ . of milk, but in this case a 10.9 test. Now, . to anybody who knows anything about f- .cows, it can easily be imagined that ini tenso curiosity was evinced by the bulk J of the farmers at the show. ; "How. was it done ?" was the frequent j . question. No one ever heard of a test of ! anything at all near such a figure; every- \ . body was sceptical, and jiaturally so, i when one considers that there are,more f ~ tests under 4.0 than over. One man, who thought he knew, told me the secret, and ! it waS very simple when you know. It j was this: After each cow in the shed was ; milked, the strippings wero drawn from j them into one;pail, and then the chaiiipion cow was milked into the same bucket. Of'course, if this had been' the case, it : would' have gone some way to clear up I the matter. However, this year had the • demerit that it was not true. As I was | going along tho Pipiriki Road 'next day, ' .1 called in to see' Jlr. Milli£an, the owner f /of* the'sfc two remarkable cows, and told . ' ' him that I 'should be glad to- receive par- ! ticulars of the cows, which had caused so I ' much interest at yesterday's show. ■ I also said that I was tho travelling correspondi "silt for The Dominion, and 1 clearly gave . him to understand that the interview | «rould be published. Mr. IHlligan at once i said he would be only too pleased to givo i >ie any information I desired, as he had i 'nothing to hide. "Buttercup,'.', the champion, was milked t . V llr. Milligau's daughter into a clean j pail. Ho was not there at the time. Tho ( milking was done in the presence of Sir. j M'Whirter, a ■ member of the committee ? of. the A. and I J . Society, and one of tho I. duly appointed supervisors in the milking i , competition. ■ Tho yield was 30 pounds f ' -at:.the two milkings; this was handed to ; Mr. Beatson, manager of tho Eaetihi v Dairy Factory,-tested by him, and the [ .result was 14.0. The other cow, "Pansy," was milked on tho same conditions, and tor test' : was. 10.9. . And there I. had'to lenvo it/- -There . was nothing further which.'Mr/ Jlilligan "could tell me. He ; is just an ordinary, everyday farmer, was i \ quite frank with mc when I put quesi" tiops, and, as far as I could gathor, the ! only suspicious point about tho . whole | thing is the! marvellous tes't-s of 14.0 for "Buttercup" and 10.9 for "Pansy." .If j they arc correct, they are surely a world's 1. record r by many points.