A Dairy Prodigy

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18632, 16 February 1935, Page 13

A Dairy Prodigy

TO have milked every day since she A had her last calf .1.1 years ago is the amazing record of Tiki, a 17-year-old dairy cow, owned by Mr. <’• Scott, Haumoana, states the Xapiet Telegraph. Purchased by Mr. Scott some years ago from Mr.’Stanley Bennett, Tangoio, at a cost ot £l-1, iiki has proved a veritable lacteal goldmine to her present- owner, for during the whole of the period of his ownership she has only been dry on two occasions since, and lias been a consistent source of daily milk supply to the Scott family for the past II years. There is nothing remarkable to Innoticed in Tiki ’s appearance. She is. in fact, just: a plain'cow. If she w«*ro put. up in a saleyard to-morrow and sold on her appearance alone, with none of the facts ,of her remarkable record disclosed', it is doubt ini whether, with the present low prices ruling for dairy cattle and with her ago taken into consideration, she would realise more than 30s.

She has three distinct breeds, Ayrshire, Shorthorn and Jersey, in her make up, with the Ayrshires features, perhaps, more strongly marked than those of the other breeds. At present she is carrying fair condition, and is still''making quite a good show of milk. Tor the week she had* averaged about a gallon and n hall, per day. She had two calves in the three years following her purchase as a 'second calver, so that, she has actually had four calves in her lifetime. Totlowing her third calving, she milked for two seasons before drying oil _