Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1886 [PAGE 225]

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217 The weight of one of the half Holsteins, 1,815 pounds at three jdays over thirty-one months is the largest we have had, while the weight of the grade Short-horn, 1,540 pounds at twenty-nine months, with two and one-half months grain feeding, is the best with like treatment. Two-year-old—Weights and Gains.

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