A JERSEY COW'S RECORD.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 95, 28 April 1910, Page 6

A JERSEY COW'S RECORD.

Recent American files show that a remarkable record for a year s milk and butter production was completed oil October 14 by the Guernsey cowDolly Dimple. During the twelve months of the test, under the supervision of the Massachusetts experiment station, she made 18,458.81b of milk, containing an average of 4.91 per cent, of butter-fat, and yielding a total of 906.891b of fat, equivalent to 10581b of butter. This is the highest milk and butter-fat record for the breed, and the highest for any cow oi like '.age in the world. At the beginning 'of this test she was three years and nine months old, and had to her credit an official two-year-old record for 12 months of 14,009.11b of milk, and 703.361b of fat, which was the best record of a Guernsey cow of that age. She began her last test live days after calving, and was served in August, so she was two months in calf at the conclusion of the last test. The concentrated part of her ration was fairly uniform throughout the test, and consisted of an average daily allowance of 21b of bran, 1.331b of pea meal, 1.331b of Ajax flakes, 21b of ground oats, 21b of gluten, 1.331b of oilmeal, 1.231b of cotton-seed, meal, 0.671b of hominy, and 1.411b of alfalfa meal, making a total of 13.31b daily for the year. There was an average daily allowance of 9.571b of hay, 151b of roots, 10.21b of silage, and 6.951b of beet pulp, and during October she received a total of 1801b of corn fodder ; in June she had pasture; and in June and July together she received a total of 7051b of green feed. Her total production by months ranged from 1909.61b of milk and 91.851b of fat in December, down to 1105.11b of milk and 56.81b of fat in September. Her largest single day's yield was 68.41b of. milk and 3.6251b of butter-fat; and her largest seven-day record, mad© December 8-14, was 444.81b of milk and 22.0341b of fat. This record adds one more to the list of cows making over 10001b of butter a year. Only a few years ago the possibility of such a performance was freely doubted. Comparing this with the 2001b yield which is the standard many dairy herds have not yet attained, there is a wide gap between the record of even, the uncommon coav and the highyielding possibilities thus definitely demonstrated.