A MARVELLOUS JERSEY MILKER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 21

A MARVELLOUS JERSEY MILKER.

As many people doubted the ability of 1 the Jersey cow Granny's Girl to produce j the quantity of butter which has from ! time to time been credited to her (says ! the New Plymouth correspondent of the j Dominion), Messrs Griffiths and Cornwall (her owners) decided to have two days] performance certified to by the Taranaki Agricultural Society. The president (Mr W. Ambury) therefore authorised a corat n/ittee to watch Granny's Girl being ! milked on five consecutive occasions. The committee report: — 1 "We were present at five successive milkings, the first being on the morning of Monday, July 13, at 7.30 a.m., when Granny's Girl was milked dry, this being 1 the starting point of the test. The next four milkings took place punctually at 5.30 p.m. and 7.30 a.m. on July 13, 14, and 15. At the evening milking on July 13, Mr R. W. D. Robertson (manager for Messrs J. B. M'Ewan and Co.) was prej sent, and instructed us how to take a correct sample for testing purposes. The duty of taking the 6ampl© was afterwards car- ' ried out by Mr Sladden, great care being j exercised in pouring the milk back and. i forth from one bucket to another as | directed by Mr Robertson. When samples i »were drawn after each milking they were placed in a sample bottle, which was then I locked up in a tin box, the key for which j was entrusted to Mr Sladden. On July 20 j i the complete sample was delivered to M t - < ' Rutherford, of Bell Block Dairy Factory, i |to test. Immediately after each milking the milk wa6 carefully weighed, and resulted ac follows : — "July 13 (night), 17.051b. "July 14 (morning), 24.901b. j "July 14 (night). 20.401b. i "July 15 (morning), 25.251b. i "Total, 87.601b. "Average daily weight, 43 801b. "Mr Rutherford has reported that the milk tested exactly 6 per cent, of fat. j The two days' milk, therefore, contained , ! 5.251b of butter-fat. In other Mords, the . ' yield was equivalent to 18.391b of butter- j { fat, or 21.461b of churned butter for the week. "Granny's Girl was grazed and rugged j in the ordinary way. and was not housed j at all except at milking time. When ■ i thePe points are taken into consideration,-! together with tho facfc thai the i\eather ' • has been so cold that there is htle nourish- . ment in the grass, and that Granny's Girl has only been fed a ration of hay and about lib of bran and lib of crushed oats at each milking, the result is a wonderful ' one. She was bred by Mr F. W. Cornwall. She descends from a rich butter strain, being by Jersey Boy out of that grand old cow Granny." Granny's Girl ! produced during the 12 months of hei J ' last milking period the remarkable record of 6751b of butter-fat. j