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Show Official Records of Guernsey Cows. The January Issue of the Herd Register Reg-ister and Bleeders' Journal of the American Guernsey Cattlo club con-tulns con-tulns the first etitrlcs In the advanced register of Guernsey cattle, The res-Ister res-Ister admits onl) animals who mako records under conditions established for the work. There conditions re-qulro re-qulro that all records must bo supervised super-vised hy some agricultural experiment station The lecords pf twelve nnl-mills nnl-mills appear In tho Januery Issue, and are ns follows Glenwood Girl 6th ear's rocord, 12 187 33 pounls milk. 672 3 pounds butter-fat. Primrose Trtckses, seal s leenrd DOS pounds butter-fat, Lucie-lias Lucie-lias Daughter, sea, s record Il.oSt b3 pounds milk, 483 6 pounds butter-fat. Lucrctla of lladdon scars record 467 6 pounds bulter-fnt, Olonvvood GUI Sth. Sears recoid 11 11013 pounds milk, 461 9 pounds butter.fat, Gspses of Ilaclne, senr's record 432 8 pounds butter-fat, Lady Bishop, sears record 391 3 pounds Ijiutter-fnt, Lady nenjamln. sears record rec-ord 390 0 pounds butter-fat. Glenwood air! 7th, sears record 1S7.1 pounds butter-fat, Nounon, years lecord 382 8 pounds butter-fat. Queen Decte, seven-day seven-day record 16 22 pounds butter-fnt, .Mentor Mold, seven-day record 16 04 pounds butter-fnt. In all records made for the advanced ad-vanced register onls the hutter-fat and milk are considered The conditions condi-tions for entrs require thnt all animals ani-mals must Blvo at least 600O pounds of milk or 250 r, pounds of hutter-fat In a sear, or ten lounds of hutter-fat In seven dass if the record begins the dny the animal Is over two years old Tor every das the nlmal Is over two years old when her record begins, the requirement Increases by a constant ratio until the animal becomes live Sears old. when the requirement will havo reached lnoo pounds of milk or 300 pounds butter-fnt In the yearly class nnd fifteen pounds of butter-fnt for seven days' iccord It then re-mains re-mains for all animals over five years of obp. Tor the purpose of convening the butter-fat records Into theli equivalent equiv-alent of butter, the register recognizes the rule adopted by the agricultural experiment stations, that Is, add one-sixth one-sixth to the amount of hutter-fat The club for the puipose of lecordlng tho actual working of tho cows, and as It Is Rcnernlly ntcepted that a cow's work ceases when she has given tho milk which contains tho butter-fat it vvns decided to hive the advanced register on a milk nnd butter-fat basis only. |