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Show AGE OF USEFULNESS OF COWS Twenty-Two-Year-Old Jersey in Wisconsin Wis-consin Produced Forty Pounds of Butterfat in 'Month. Wisconsin has a twenty-two-year-old Jersey cow in one of her cow-testing associations that recently made 40 pounds of butterfat In one month. Sweet Briar, a Guernsey cow, did profitable work at the Minnesota experiment ex-periment station up to her seventeenth Excellent Dairy Type. year, and Cylene, a Holstein cow in the same institution and at the same age, will this year produce over 400 pounds of butterfat. The age of usefulness of the majority of dairy cows that meet with no accident, is probably between twelve and fourteen years, but frequently fre-quently dairy cows give splendid profit beyoud these years, as the above cases illustrate. |