BUTTER-FAT PRODUCTION

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 131, 30 November 1926, Page 17

BUTTER-FAT PRODUCTION

WORLD'S .RECORDS. HELD BY

CANADIAN COWS.

The world's vecovd for .Hip highest amount, of butter fat produced 11; 365 a ays was obtained by "Bella Pontiac in 19JUl!l a Canadian-bred cow owned by Ihomas \ Barron, Brantfovd, Ontario, slates -The llarban," an Australian .magazine devoted to shipping interests. Her productiou "was .27,191 pounds of milk, and 1270- pounds of fat. . '.In 1921-22 the world's record was secured by "Agassiz Segis May Echo, another Holstoin-Friesian cow, bred and owned in Canada, the property o£ tne Dominion fixpenmcntal Farm at. A?assi/.,. British Columbia, with a record of 30.830 pounds of milk and 1345 pounds oi but-ter-fat. ■ Again, in 1923, the world s record tor butter-fat production was. broken and is at present held by a Canadian-bred cow. Thin is "Dekol Pius Segis Dixie,' owned by D. Raymond, -Vandreu.il, Quebec, .tins cow, freshening at the age of nine years and three months, produced, under oiuciai test, 33,477.3 pounds of milk, containing 1686.5 pounds of butter in 360 consecutive days, this beinft the second time that she has been the title-holder. The world's championship for grade cows is also claimed for the Holstein-Fries-ian cow, "Dairy Maid," the property of Alex' Davie, of Ladner, 8.C., with a record of 22,514 pounds of milk and 1132.06 pounds of-butter in 365. days. The above information is taken from an official docu; ment entitled "Canadian Dairying," issued by the Departmeat of Agriculture, Canada. It has to be admitted with regret that no Australian cow can get within coo-ec of "Dekol Plus Segis Dixie" in the matter of butter-fat production fov a period of 365 consecutive days. Moreover, the most productive Australian cow is hopelessly outdistanced even by the simply-named "Bella Pontiac" with her 12701b of but-ter-fat, and also by her more imposing sister "Agassi?; Segis May Kclio" with 13451b of the same commodity." Even the plainly-named "Dairy Maid"—who mij-'ht. iihiio."t as well have been called "Strawberry"'—produced 11/,2.061b of butler, in the year. The best champion tlmk Australia can produce, apparently, is Mr. H. A. M'Donald's Jersey, "Jessie's Twylish II.," with 10871b of butter in 365 days. She was closely approached by Mr. A. Booker's Jersey "Conceit's Coquette of Kilvinsidc," a cow that ]::i:i completed v milk and butter-fat test fov a yield equal to 10691b of butter in 365 days. The Canadian-bred Holstein-Fries-ian cows easily led the field in Canada. It is a case of "Eclipse first and the rest nowhere."