2000 GALLON COWS

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 146, 18 December 1919, Page 5

2000 GALLON COWS

BREAkiNG THE RECORDS.

(Fitoa bnR oVrs correspoNdeni.) LONDON, 16th October

The' High Commissioner .for New Zealand saw a statement that a British Friesian cbw liarrfed Southill Coiuitess ha;d yielded in 320 days 2i06 gallons" of milk. He at once capped this' record by telling of e'x|ierie'rice's in New Zealand, and-to a result ue,w records have been of ahriost daily occurrence ever since.

While Southill Countess may llavfe eclipsed the yield of all other. cows in the country, Sir Thomas Mackenzie mentioned, several instances of better yields a& having been recorded .in New ?esland. For instance, a HolsterhFriesian cow named Westmere Prince^ Piete.vtje .gave a yield in the season ended July, 1918, of 24,1991b of milk, representing; rbughly; 2420 gallons and 939.78 .of butter-fat. "I might say that when I was Minister for Agriculture in the Dominion we had on "the Weraroa State, Farm .a cow of similar breed named. Domino 111., which during the season 1911-12 gave a yield of 21,722 1b of milk, representing about 2172 gallons, and 738.5481 bo? butter-fat.'" Then the Agent-General for Ontario Hurried into, print with a "world's record.'.' "A few months.ago," he.wrote, "an.Ontario cow, Rplo Mercena de Kol, established a world's, record witH 511b of b'uttei'. iii seven .days, and 2001b of butter in 3D days. This finp, cow's yield of milk Sas 29201b in .30 cjays" or, roughly, .29^2 gallons, which is at. the rate of 2'9TO gallons, ifa 300. .days. She has sittc'fe been sb;ld for 55200."' „

For this country, another ... BritishFrißsian ebw, ..iteHije's Moss liose, Sias topped tlie 20ub-giiUon m-Srk, a.nd joined the,Sefect feijid. which rorisists of Sohthill Obuh'Uss arid Eskf- Etf.y. Mo&s Rise's record bid^ fair tb' r be; th.d iho'st phenomenal of all. . Sea1 2bCO-gall6ns have beeii .^iveh in 271 days, and the aiefage' of ten hibnthly tests shoVvs her milk to contain 3.07 per cfent. of butter-fat. Mbteover, if all goes Tvell, in DeceiiibS!' she will have her fiecarfd ci-lf wif.hih eleven months. She has had five calves and given 7440 gallons of milk since Ist April) 1915. Mr. May, who raised her, also raised jßske Etty,. the first BritisJi. 200Cf-g:llloiier,, whoso; full record for 365 days was 2413 gaiions. Moss Rose, with,"2Bbo gallons in 271 days,' is still yielding SJ. gallons a day. Hedge's.M-dss Rose and all ,h«r daughters have; b'eeii sola by Mr. Al.ay to My. J, ft. .Bean, of. Ohaßdesky Corbett, Worcestershire, who will .at-tenipt a record herd avgrape for,milk,production.