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Show JERSEY COW'S GOOD RECORD Pedro's Ettella, Bred by Missouri Agricultural Ag-ricultural College, Produces Much Butter. iny c. H. ECKI.ES.) This Jersey cow, I'edro't Kstella 197245, as bred by the Missouri Agricultural college. Her record for Pedro'a Estella. 12 months as a three-year-old Is aa follows: fol-lows: Milk, 11.008 poundt; rat in milk, 60S pounds. The average per cent of fat for the entire year was 5 476 pounds. Computing Com-puting the yield of butter on basis of 85 per cent, according to the rule of the Jersey Cattle club, this cow produced pro-duced 712.12 pounds of butter In the 12 months. Her weight was 8K0 pounds at the beginning of the test and increased to 900 pounds at the end of the year. The best previous authentlcal year's record for an animal of this age Is 618 pounds fat, which Is exceeded 87 8 pounds by the record of Pedro's Estella. Es-tella. The average amount of grain fed per day wns about fourteen pounds, or a total of 5.110 pounds during the year, which consisted mostly of corn, oats, bran and oil meal. |