A RARE BREEDING COW.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3025, 7 March 1881, Page 4

A RARE BREEDING COW.

A correspondent of tho St. Louis Journal of Agriculture, writing from Millan, Missouri, on September 16tb, says : —" Last fall, while in Sullivan, I tried to give yon some description of the most noted cow that you, or I either, ever heard of. She has become more noted since that time by repeating the same thing again. Yesterday I was on the farm of Judge Payne, living five miles north-east of Millan, in Sullivan country. He is a well,-to-do farmer, and what you might call a true Bourbon, being from Kentucke, and one of those largehearted hospitable men that you find from tho blue grass region. He is a large stock man, and the owner of the most noted cow in America. He has 1200 acres in his farm, 700 or 800 in grass, all.in ]a high state of cultivation. He would "welcome to his domicile, and he glad to show any one what they never saw before —a cow that at nine calvings dropped 23 calves, or 2| at each time. She is a common scrub, black and white, and if fat, might weigh 11001b. She is now 14 years old, and in the lot with her calves. She has four calves which were four years old the 26th clay of last June, weighed yesterday as follows :—The steer, which is red and white, but mostly a deep red, weighed 17001b ; a bluo spotted heifer, 17041b ; a red and white pied heifer, 15741b ; and the last of the four, a white one with red on the neck and sides, weighed 15361b ; making in all 65141b. All of these calves were dropped at one time on the 26th day of June, 1876. In June, 1878, she dropped three heifer calves, and in March, April, and May last, each of these had calves, and aro good milkers. These young cows, with the old dam and her four lai'ge calves, can be seen at any time on the farm of Mr Payne. Nor does it stop here ; in the year 1880, this rioted cow, during the warm days of August, dropped four more calves at one time, one male nnd three heifers."