SHORTHORN’S RECORD

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20186, 2 March 1940, Page 14

SHORTHORN’S RECORD

AMAZING INTEREST 1000 LETTERS RECEIVED A dairy Shorthorn cow, Cherry, owned by Messrs. Wort and Way, Wiltshire, England, established a world’s milk record for the year of 4164 gallons. She carried on for another 199 days, or 563 days in all, and the lactation finished up with 50,037;,'1b. or slightly more than 5000 gallons. ’Phis meant a daily average of slightly more than 8.? gallons. She is due to calve again ttie first week of February.

The extraordinary performance and the publicity attached to it have naturally attracted world-wide attention. Mr. Wort has received more than 1000 letters. Hundreds of visitors of all nationalities have been and still are calling at the farm to have a “close up” of Cherry.

The greatest interest appears to have been aroused among farmers in ihe United States, Canada, the South American Republics, Australia, and New Zealand. Letters have come from Tasmania, Holland, France, Italy, South Africa, San Francisco, Denmark, Nebraska, Mississippi, Texas, Ontario, New York, lowa, Wisconsin, Buenos Aires, Illinois, and scores of other places far removed from the Wiltshire farm.