Lifetime Record

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32381, 21 August 1970, Page 15

Lifetime Record

> By producing a total ! of 80071 b of fat and ; 205,5781 b of milk in 15 \ successive lactations up : to the end of the 1969- ■ 70 testing season, the ; Taranaki Ayrshire cow, . Camelia, becomes • the breed’s leading life- ’ time producer for all i time in this country. Bred and owned by Mr A. > Brown of Stratford, she has J in her lifetime produced sufficient milk to fill 10 normal E size milk tankers and re- . turned her owner at 32c per ; lb of butterfat a total of t about $2560. i She has calved regularly > every year for 15 seasons' s and always within a five : weeks period. Her latest calving date was September

8 when she was a heifer and her earliest was in the last season when she calved on July 28 at 16 years of age. Camelia’s progeny have always been heifers and a third of the Ora Downs stud today are her direct female descendants. The , performances of her daughters have earned her the S.P. title (superior pro geny), an she Would gain twice over. Her seasonal yields have been very consistent without being spectacular. She has three records over 6001 b of fat and up to 6421 b, a further seven over 5501 b including 5821 b in 295 days at 14 : years. At all times she has run with the herd and has never received any special treatment throughout the whole of her working life. i