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Show A GREAT COW. FUnal'iIlly 1 lajt. Hie WorM's Nl) C.roiTi.ed llultar (Jii.ro. Wo hate tho pleasure of laj Ing before our dairy and creuinery column renden a iKjrlri.lt of the new butter queen, big. unl's Lily Thgg. Tho pl.turo Is reprov duccd fiom Tho 11 roc Jet's Oaiette. On tho hut day of her test, May 81, Lily's u.llk jleltleil 4 ixnintU lOtj ounces ol butter. Tho cow ia of rrnnkfort (ICy ancestry, but win Iwrn nnd reared In Alabama It Is a little curlons Hist the Jeiuth, w hero uu ldoa obtained Hut Jer tMnwt i uiv rtsnn re) s wnulj nut tin u ., has produced tho inot ruusil. iblo Join) butter tow In Auierlt a. if not in tho w m Id '1 ha otht r groat bitter eons must .-urr. tut.r tho lll to Klituitls Lily risgg, of Hun villa, AU. A writer lu Tho Knral Now Yorker ha)s: '1 ho Jersey cow Signals LllyFlogg, 81,0.1.1. has just ooniplotej it full mrs test, 'u hit h put her at tho head ot ih.iry cow In uno yeur, eantLug May 111, 180.1. she luiule 1.LU7 inurnls ojf oimcee cf woll worked butter from slightly nvor 10,000 iju..d of mill. Thi best thij's pe.foimuiite wis CO pound loum-ea of milk '1 lit Imat niotith's record was l.Uufl poi.udH of milk, making IIS pouml 13 oiliiti of liuttei. The best Wi ek a teat win -'TpittmMi'uimcosof butter Ihe low li deicribcd on follow) , ,, H M..r til oti h ftwn c.l Inrk alndiugsou f 1 . ir 111 f 1 1 nil 'white belh a . ' - i I Ii i In. nr. Ing nnd of indiiiin u nml lhh n... small bone, Iouk I n lite Un i truVr. tlixl fhiiika. btslt u "l length nu 1 1 1 w il i form n I I i v cor.e til iil f tir a. I. -. ut. noon. ii I i rlnrt iilul tali i( i n i illkmcotlt .1 it ton. a good i. t nlk veins n r. 1 ii unit inrtuonij wlim .ted weight c f cow, 0.V1 punntls, llertiedlgrco Is not "faahlonahlo," It Is hard lo tell to what family ' she lie-longs. lie-longs. Her feed consisted of oats nnd corn ground tofttbtr tvitl. bran and oil meal. Blie ntO thirty two quarU per day ot this, with pMtnre in sutnuior and hay and erurllngo In flnter. Ilye for I'rtll I a.tnre. Thoia who liaTOluid exia-rlenco reiirt that If ljo lie eowti earlt lu Hoptemlier uu Icr fair conditions it will furnish a wry considerable amount of fetal this fall, ami starting onrlv in the spring -till alfcnl pasture cnrlli r than tho bine grass laud. Aftfr It is isutured a few weeks in sprjnf, If tho it k k is .- ntoieJ it will rnu up U) seed and cive a fair tnpof grain. Ofcourv.wh.ri.aom.Kl. 1" cnctftl tho grouml mnu bo lit h olid the stasoii fntombte. It.e is una of tho Very best grain crojn with which to get a good calch of ch.wr The prudent Ick kman is always wall liln for uu oic 1 ilunlty to fufnlih a fre-h bite for Lis sulln.ils.- Ute.-ltr's CJiue.ln. |