The Dairy.

Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1402, 22 January 1914, Page 5

The Dairy.

RECORD MILK YIELDS

SOME AMERICAN FIGURES,

the world’s record for one j ear’s butter-fat production is stated by a writer in the American Breeders’ Gazette of December 11th to be held by the Holstein cow Banostine Belle de Kol. In her five-year-old form this cow produced in 365 days 27,404.4 pounds of milk, testing 3,86 per cent, or 10,583.4 pounds of butter fat. Another Holstein cow, Creamlea Vale, holds the world’s reord for one year’s milk production, her record being 29.591.4 pounds of milk, while her butter fat for the year is 927.1 pounds. For five years, from 1908 to 1913, Jacoba Irene, with a yearly record of 954 pounds of butter fat, held the world’s record for the Jersey breed. She has recently been replaced by the Jersey cow Eminent’s Bess, with a record of 18,782.8 pounds butter fat. testing 5.12 per cent, or 962.8 pounds butterfat. This gives her premier place in the breed both for milk and butter-fat production. i The world’s record for Guernseys is held by Spotswood Daisy Pearl, with 18,602.8 pounds milk, testing 5.15 per cent, or 957.38 pounds butter-fat. Dolly Dimple holds the yearly record of milk production for this breed with 18.805.5 pounds of milk, testing 4.66 per cent, or 876.34 pounds s> f butterfat.

Phenomenal progress in the line of yearly records is also being made by the Ayrshire breed. Auchenbrain Brown Kate has just attained premier place in the breed by completing a record of 23,023 pounds of milk and 917.6 pounds of butter-fat.

The brown Swiss cow College Bravura 2nd recently completed the highest yearly re:ord for the breed, reaching a total of 19,304.6 pounds of milk, averaging 4.1 per, cent, of butter-fat, which makes 791.85 pounds of butter-fat.