Show CO COW MAKES MAIES FORTUNE Tilly pure bred Holstein all previous prod productive re ic lo Food d won the war and Food is gong song go so- ng og to lo to lobe be the most important single actor in the r reconstruction o of 4 the allons of oC the earth From Irom the of food tood production there- there re ire the r record recently completed y the pure-bred pure Holstein cow Tilly No is of particular to every resident of Millard l whether classed as consumers t upon agriculture as the source of or orro ro food d s supply or as s rod cers aiding in the task of fee feed feed- ig g a hungry world Tilly has been In test as the reeders express It it every year year since ye Ie ie first freshe freshened ed as a ear a year old a otal tal of ot six years This years This means that very milking during those six years ears as been Leen carefully weighed tested Jr r butter fat content and officially by the Friesian As- As or of A e representatives f C the State College of Agriculture of ot alifornia In which state Tilly redes redes redes re- re des being present to superintend superintend ie he le actual a weighing and testing In his Ills wa way the th figures res are rendered ab- ab above the shadow of ot a doubt to these official figures Til Til- r has produced d during dring this year six-year the stupendous total of milk pounds utter her final year ear just completed sing eing the best one or- or of orthe the six with pounds milk and 1323 of butter The Holstein Frie Frie- an an World is authority for the state state- lent tent that not only is this year six otal by far the largest record for tor Ither milk or butter ever made by br dairy cow of any breed but that be he e year one-year record record mentioned is a worlds world's record for milk reduction by bYa a margin of over oyer 2000 This newspaper urther states that her figures surpass s sIt It lose se of the Jersey cov distance Ct Sophia of of Hood arm by over over GOO pounds butter bulter and bout pounds more than twice s much mills milk This gives som some somo idea Ilea f f Uie the magnitude of her TJi The Meaning of These Figure l Just consider what these on on figures mean They mean menu that wring the past year filly rilly as averaged 91 pounds practically i. i ally 5 quarts quarts quarts-of of milk for every evelY day of ne year Her avera average e W weekly yield f butter was over 25 pounds ponds Tak- Tak ig tg her her- records each year from to ears ears ears' upward she has av a il l to reduce practically 36 quarts of mill mild very day ay ot of the year for the sU six Ix ears ears At least seven average COW could ouia DO be De' De required to to pro produce an amount Think of ot the economy i t 1 labor and feed teed in keeping ono one r ure bred I that will do o the ork of ot seven average ws year aft aft- r r year During the past year Tilly nine av average r go cows in while the net profit on ler ter years year's work was greater than the of the entire herds erds can how show According to careful figures fur l I h r owners owners Tilly's TIUs Ji feed ed HI at at cU current r nt prices t totals total's between and her dally daily dally grain ra ion comprising only sixteen pounds Jf if f common common- feeds ground barley round ground oats wheat brand Soya-bean Soya neal heal seed cotton-seed meal and linseed oil 11 meal all of ot them feeds teeds that are available for the average dairyman This is Is a a smaller amount of concentrated concentrated concentrated concen concen- te feed d than the champions of ot the Jersey and Guernsey breeds con- con and the Holstein exceeded their milk production product on by over per cent and 70 per cent respectively During nine months of her year Sh she sha sharan sheran ran at pasture about four tour hours a day On the other side of ot the ledger we find a credit of or the actual t price at which her milk was sold sold sold- 2 75 per hundred which is less than the average price in most localities At 15 cents centi a quart it would have brought practically 2500 Jf It it hall had been made i Into to butter the th-e value of ot that commodity with the skim milk would have figured right around In In addition she she sho has p produced cd a live live healthy calf each year and on account t of of her unequalled led work F breeders would be willing to pay al almost almost almost al- al most any prices the owners might place upon them the total for tor the six running Into into a go good d many thousand dollars i Expressed in Eggs Oranges and s. s Sq much for tor the dollars and cents side of ot the question Let us get back to to the the food 1 question again Basing our our computations on on United States government figures as to to the the food tood value of ot various articles oc of diet stated in calories as a common basis for tor comparison we find the following facts are arc pertinent The milk produced by Tilly tra has an actual food tood value equaling approximately prime beef beet steers allowing pounds of meat free from waste wasta worth of ot eggs at 50 cents a dozen doze worth worth of ranges at 75 cents a dozen worth of ot oysters oysters gallons gallons gallons-at at a gallon Figured at 15 cents a n. quart her milk equalIng in actual food value the figures given above would total And yet some of ot us think we cannot afford atford to use much milk when it gets above 10 cents a quart Tilly was bred and born in Iowa in the herd of ot McKay McI Bros but since sine a a. yearling has been een owned by A A. A W W. Morris d Sons' Sons Corporation Corporation Corpora Corpora- tion of ot California in whose herd al alof all allot of ot her great records have been made Tilly stands today as a living vital demonstration of or the possibilities pos pos- o d She is the mos most striking example of ot the efficiency of Q o the dairy cow as a n. food tood producer She consumes consume large quantities of ordinary ordinary or or- farm tarm roughage and the byproducts byproducts byproducts by by- products of ot our grain mills and converts converts converts con con- verts it a all into mans man's most nearly perfect and indispensable food food milk The work of Tilly shines a aa as asa asa a beacon light pointing the way to greater dairy production production and and to a I and nidre e more profitable agriculture |