BUTTERPAT RECORD
A LIFETIME PRODUCTION Mr J. P. Kalaugher writes as follows: In a recent issue of your paper there appears a paragraph claiming a world's record for a Jersey cow, Richmond Posy sth, which at Bawkesbury College, New South Wales, produced 75,1891b milk, equal to 55401b commercial butter, in five years (note. 55401b butter equals 44321b fat). This is certainly a splendid performance, but not a world's record. A New Zealand pedigree Friesian cow, Totara C.R. Buttercup, owned by the Piri Land Company, Orini, Waikato, has the following C.O.R. production figures:— Age at calving. Yrs. Days. lb, Milk. lb. Fat--2 .305 ' 21,208.6 780.03 3 247 25,885.3 989.10 4 267 27,108.1 1079.14 5 308 28,037.0 1050.07 7 20 23,622.8 879.06 Totals ■.. 125,89116 4788.03 The world's lifetime record production of butter-fat is held by the Canadian pedigree Friesian cow, Springbank Snow Countess, 8190,71b fat. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. For Children's Hacking Cough, —1
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21533, 24 July 1935, Page 17
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