FARM AND STATION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13904, 1 December 1910, Page 10

FARM AND STATION.

: _ __-| — -("Weekly Press and Referee.") THE IOKDON -DAIRY SHOW. The milking trials and butter te_at ,the leading shows in England whe such competitions are held form inte fitting studies. In New Zealand a attempt is being made to show* ths there are practically only two bre« of cattle that are profitable for daii farmers to keep, and yet it is to 1 seen that in England there area, nur bor of breeds that are not only heai milkers but are profitable butter-fi ,-producers. Even the pedigree Shor horns, too often desoised by those \\x really know nothing of the breed, a. capable of putting up splendid record The first prize pedigree Shorthorn th© milking trials at tbe late Londc Dairy Show average for two day milking 59.31b j*f milk, testing 4.78 p cent, of butter-fat, while the secot prize cow gavo 53.31b of milk, with test .of 5.58. The two leading Shor bora heifers, under three years of ag averaged 37.91b of milk, test 4.08, ai 39.21b of milk, test 3.57, respective! , This leading non-pedigree Shorthoi cow won with an average of 64.61b milk, with a test of 3.92, and the ne: best 64.51b of milk, testing 3.9. Tl Lincoln Red Shorthorns again domo etrsfegd their fine milking quahtk The cow averaged 56.31b milk, testing 3.43, and the second priz taker 53.31b of milk, testing 3.63. Tl first prize Jersey cow produced on i average for two days 45.11b of mil with a test of 6.22, and the second oc 84.61b of milk, testing 6.59, an exce tionally high test, the morning's mi having* averaged 7.89. The best R<

3.1G, and the second 44.21b of milk, with a tost of 4.26 South Devoas are coming to the front as milkers, and the first prize-taker 62.81b of milk, testing " 53, and the next best 61.31b of milk, with a test of 3.C3. It is a well known fact that cows seldom do justice to themselves whi'i milked in a show yard, and the two days' milking at the London Dairy She a", indicates this,, for the majority of the prize winning cows gave lib to 21b more milk on the second day than on the nrst, whilst a number of cows failed to come up to the minimum standard of points allowed. In the Jersey butter tests the winning cow gave &Jlb 15oz of mi'kj producing 2Jb 3oz of butter, and t!».- second prize-taker, which was the winner in her class in the milking trials, gave loz of butter less. In the Shorthorn butter test the two leading cowf. in the milking trials for pedigree animals reversed their positions, tho winr.er producing 21b 14Joz of butter, and the second 21b lOJoz. Of eighteen Jersey cows entered seven gave 21b of ij.itter and over per day, and of thirty Shorthorn cows eleven giive 21b and over. The Lincoln Red Shorthorns dii not come out as well at tlio London Dairy Show as at the Royal Show tests. ,