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Show HOLSTEIN IS STEADY PRODUCER ISHJam Mt. Vernon Beaty Mead Lady, High Producing Hotitein. By producing 10 gallons of milk con- taining 2.0 to 2.0 pounds of butterfat daily for 3G5 days, ML Vernon Beaty Mead Lady, a five-year-old Holsteln-Frlesian Holsteln-Frlesian cow, owned by Carnation Milk Farms of Seattle, Wash., becomes the 98th Holsteln cow to produce more than 30,000 pounds of milk In a year. At the same time, she qualified quali-fied as the 137th Holsteln to produce more than 1,000 pounds of butterfat In a year. This Is more than four times the production of the average cow. Feeding babies their dally milk supply sup-ply would be a simple matter with such a cow as this, as "Lady" could provide 80 babies daily with fresh wholesome, easily digested milk of moderate fat content. Or she could meet both the milk nnd butter needs of 30 growing children or adults for a year or could keep the "soda" counter supplied with 1C0 milk shakes dally. Production for Year. The production of "Lady" Is 30,-049.G 30,-049.G pounds of milk containing 1 022.4 pounds of butterfat (1,27S pounds of butter) In one year. For only 03 days did her milk production drop below SO pound.s dally, the lowest mark being be-ing 79.1 pounds and the highest 5)1 .()." pound3. Her daily production of butterfat but-terfat varied between 2.9 and 2.G (3.G and 3.3 pounds butter). Marketed as whole milk at 14 cents a quart, nearly 14.000 quarts would bring $1,9"0 In one year. Sold as 30 per cent cream at 25 cents a half pint, this milk would bring $1,701 nnd In addition would provide 20,011 pound3 of skim milk that, fed to 223 chickens producing eggs that sold at 30 cents a dozen, would be worth $1.27 a hundred hun-dred pounds for feeding purposes and would bring the gross return to more than $2,000 for the one cow. How stendy was the production of "Lady" Is Indicated by the fact that as the year closed she was producing ! 82.0 pounds of milk containing 2.S!) ' pounds of butterfat (3.0 pounds butter) but-ter) which was her best average pro ductlon during the Inst 10 months. "Lady" Is a good sized cow as she weighs l,7.r'0 pounds, according to A. M. Ghormley, manager of the farms. In order to make this record, she ate 09 pounds of feed dally consisting of , 3 pounds of beet pulp, 1 pound of molasses, 40 pounds of beets and mangels, man-gels, and 25 pounds of alfalfa with green feed substituted for part of the alfalfa when available. This amounted to nearly 13 tons of feed In a year. In order to produce the total of more than 15 tons of milk. It was also necessary nec-essary to provide more than 00 tons of water which, If carried In 12 quart milk palls, would require 0,000 containers con-tainers or 10 a dav. On the national list for butterfat, ! Lady ranks 89th and Is one of five nolstelns that have equaled this production pro-duction In 1929. For milk production, she ranks 03rd on the national list of OS Holstelns, no other cows of any dairy breed having produced more than 30.000 pounds of milk In a year. Sketch of the Lady. Lady was bred by R. E. Waugh of Burlington, Wash., and Is now owned by Carnation Milk Farms. At the nge of 4 years, 5 months, 21 days, she was credited with 500.2 pounds of milk on strictly official test containing 10.050 pounds of butterfat (20.8 butter) in 7 days. During the early part of the lactation Just completed, she Is credited credit-ed on strictly official test with 00.?." pounds of milk containing 19.0-H pounds of butterfat (24.5 butter) In 7 days. Her sire Is Segis I'outlac Korn-dyke Korn-dyke Mead and her dam Is Lady Bet-Una Bet-Una Rag Apple. A sister. Mt. Vernon Segis Walker Mead, Is credited with a senior-three yearly record of 27,-493.5 27,-493.5 pounds of milk containing S23.13 pounds of butterfat (1,028.9 butter). |