Show 4 MOTHER 21 IS RECORD OF Olt OLDEST COW V IN UTAH On exhibition in the Jersey department department department de de- at the Utah state fair re recently re- re was was- Eagles Irene claimed officially lly to be the oldest cow in the state and probably in the United States Irene is a. a purebred registered registered regis regis- I I Jersey her register number being She was l born Lorn orn l I March G 6 1899 and belongs to the state of Utah having been bred and owned by the state mental hospital at Provo She is the mother of twenty- twenty one calves nineteen females and two males and will within four weeks give birth to another She Is in charge of Frank B. B Astroth of the American Jersey cattlemen's bureau who says that the cow has given In her hel lifetime pounds of milk yielding pounds ponds of butter fat The cows cow's physical condition is such according to expert cattlemen to appear to be about 16 or 17 years of age but the certified record of her b birth th and progeny speaks It itself it- it self n |