Butter Fat Test.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8196, 24 May 1906, Page 2

Butter Fat Test.

(To the Editor,i Siu.— Hi» natiafactory that interest»» in the above, judging from several '•Writer# to. .your paper, Tit» bat wHl&*\ H Progress," »w>ta» i nform&tior), and with the desiro of putting hi* figure* right, I, Mft rentier of your journal, am willing to help him. The important point of rightly estimating the value ofbutter fat relatively with tlift amount of milk is ea&ential—to bo explicit and enable reader* to follow, the basis is (a) one point for each pound of milk yielded in 24 hours average of tour days taken, (b) twenty five points for every pound of butter fat. An example works out tlnw ;—A cow gives IPOiba of milk for four daya with a & pot cent teat. The average for one day in JiOibs milk—liO points, The total milk gives filbs butter fat 150 point-, total 180 points. Or another breed of cow will yield 1091 bain four days with |J'f> per cent, working,mat to a total alao of 180 points. The c'xamplea given are typical of what inight bo reckoned on. The figure example* of " Progress " cannot be thus considered. Several points in the test might bo considered good when the period is over ton days—in the first air; days cows settle down and accustom to the conditions, the last four are devoted to testing. On the conclusion of tho test , tho conditions auggcat the first seven I cows then be placed on exhibition at the | show. This should be educational as tho merits of milking, butter fat, and merit in appearance as a dairy cow can :be considered on respective merita, It is admitted that in recent yeara great improvement has been made in the methods of dealing with the product as a manufactured article. Well, if dairymen had made as much progress in the cow economics (that is to say food, yield, and quality) getting on a level with what can bo done, why, ihey would be passing well-to-do in tho cow buai. ness. It in hoped tho committee will make tho butter fat teat an object lesson in tins direction. -I am, etc., WIIAIiK UNA.