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Show FEW RECORD-BREAKING COWS Remarkable Strides Made by Dairy Cattle During Past Half Dozen Years Few Results. It would startle a dairyman of 40 years ago to look at some of the records rec-ords established recently by leading dairy breeds In America. Then a cow that would produce 27,432 pounds milk in a year would have been considered, as prosperous as the old world looked upon Columbus' Idea of the earth being be-ing round. However, Colantha 4th Johanna, the famous Holstein cow, produced that amount of milk under careful supervision. It tested 3.64 per cent butter ' fat, being a total of 998 pounds butter fat for the year. Another Holstein, Lunde Korndyke, was a close second, with 26,192 pounds milk to her credit for a year, which tested 3.33 per cent, or a total of 872 pounds butter fat. However, all good cows are not Holstelns. Readers will recall the re- Jersey Heifer. markable record of the Guernsey cow, Dolly Dimple. She produced 18,808 pounds milk In a year which tested out 878 pounds fat. Jersey breeders have something to brag about. Jacoba Irene produced 17,253 pounds milk in a year, which yielded 952 pounds butter fat. Another Anoth-er Jersey cow, Olga 4th's Pride, gave 16,275 pounds milk, producing 871 pounds butter fat in a-year. A third Jersey, Sophie J9th, while giving only 14,373 pounds milk, made 854 pounds butter fat. There are a half dozen or more well-known Jersey cows that have exceeded the 800-pound mark for butter fat in 365 days. When the average aver-age farmer gets a cow that will produce pro-duce 300 pounds butter fat he thinks he has something pretty good. Then again, Ayrshires are not to be Ignored. Netherhall Brownie 9th, an Ayrshire cow, has a record of 18,110 pounds milk which produced 820 pounds butter fat. Other breeds like Brown Swiss and the dairy strain of Shorthorn have interesting in-teresting records back of them. When a dairyman gets out Of sorts with the world and thinks little progress is being be-ing made let him contemplate some of these facts and note the really remarkable re-markable strides dairy cattle breeding has experienced the past half dozen years. |