STATE HERD EXPERIMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1152, 13 June 1911, Page 8

STATE HERD EXPERIMENTS.

HOLSTEIN A.\"D SHORTHORN FIGURES. Some figures compiled by the Department of Agriculture respecting the Stale herds of Itolslein cattle and Shortjiorn cattle at the Wererna F.xperiment. Farm may make interesting reading (o dairymen. In reckoning the value of tlu: cows' products, elevenpence per 111. was the price Used for butler-fat. Four of the shorthorns and eleven of the Holsteins are still milking. Counting down the column, No. 2 Holstein i.s now giving 2611). of milk; No. I), 22; No. S, 13; No. G, 14; No. 7, 20; No. S, 2:1; No. 0. }fi; No. in, 23; No. 11. 21; No. 12, 25; and No. 13, 22. Of the Shorthorns. No. 1 is (riving 1G1I).; N'o. G, 7; No. S, 20; and No. !), 18. The tables follow:— SHORTHORN. Yield

Days Milk Be>t Value. Milked, in lb. day. Test. Fat. £ s. d. 275 12.696 71 4.2 503 24 8 . 0 273 7.G3G 43 3.5 267 12 5 0 250 8.704 51 3.4 295 13 11 0 216 7.010 50 4.0 316 14 10 0 216 7.360 18 3.8 279 12 16 0 201 6.914 52 3.6 218 11 8 0 103 5.869 56 3.4 199 9 2 0 181 7.339 57 3.S 278 12 15 0 176 6.5S5 5S 3.4 223 10 5 0 JIOLSTEIX. Xieltl Day? .Milk Be.-k Vnlnp. Milked, in lb. day. Test. Fat. 41 s. d. 360 12.734 50 3.2 407 18 13 0 2S3 11.636 60 3.G 41S 19 4 0 247 14.350' 84 3.8 515 25 0 0 222 7.732 70 3.9 301 13 16 0 209 10.327 80 4.0 413 18 IS 0 200 6.452 51 3.0 251 11 10 0 205 7.670 50 3.4 ilO 11 19 0 191 8.171 60 3.6 204 13 9 0 185 G.GG1 53 3.2 213 9 15 0 158 6.314 69 3.4 214 9 16 1 154 5.323 51 3.5 186 8 11 0 137 5.632 55 3.4 101 8 15 0 98 3.040 39 3.G 109 5 0 0