OLD AND YOUNG COWS

New Zealand Mail, 22 January 1902, Page 55

OLD AND YOUNG COWS

I -rutteb yieldsG capacity. , : T aJI inquiry upon this subject, in“by the American journal, , j Stitutecl "J j ian> »> a correspondent ; “Hoards ” looking over the records i i" ,teS A in our herd, I (iad that, as a ; ° f . C n!d-r cows test higher m percoiu- ‘ rule ’t wttr fat than the young ones.” ag* ofb 'cov-‘: are all registered Hoi- * and tiic- tests were all conducted ■ £frS? e St=.ive of the Wi*»,sin VJnrhiwnt Station, as official tests. T were all for a period of seven , 1 tntj , were commenced ; con “ e r^ ro S'twenty-eight after calv--1 ?“ a lsixteen two-year-olds made 10.70 S , ' f butter, the average fat m tno lihik boiiilc 3.33 per eetit.; eight too-rear-olds made an average c-f Id.cOlb I of butter, average fat 3.4.8 per cent.: four four-year-olds made an average of : u,531b of butter, average tat z.U per I . eleven mature cows made an * Sage of IS.lCilb of butter, the averse fat being 3.AS per cent We nave ak-o tested a few hosiers the second ij.'no that i=. after dropping next cali; h these I find they averaged 8.48 percent, fat in n,ilk with tneir first Lit and averaged 3.02 per cent, tat m milk, with second test.. From this vill be seen that there is a marked tnrfercuco between the younger and toe older cows, with the four-year-dus in th° lead; although as but rour of these were tested, it is but fair to conclude that percentage is above what it would have been had a larger number been tried.