Denmark’s Champion Cow.
;■ * s .■ ■ ' •• I - Denmark’s champion cow holds her laurels in virtue of a yield of 13,560 lb. of milk in a year. The butter-fat average was 4,07 per cent. ■ That means 551.892 lb. of which at 86 per cent. : would yield 649.277 lb. of bntter. *! - ‘ Evidently the Danish breeders •' do not take much interest in-realhv big-yield cows. The Danish chain- ’ pion-sizes up small alongside-the > American, champion and also the:-.' world’s champion, the Holsiein'A Frie.sian cow, Bahostine Belle'''. DeKolj who won the’ belt, the '" crown and the laurels with her A year output of ,27,404.4 lb. of milk - ' with 3.86' per ;cen t. of ? butter fat, which means 1057 809 lb. of butter- : fat and 1,244 482! lb. of butter. In milk she did .not. T.urpas-t the l , 1 former ,champion, Col'antha' 4th’s Johanna, who held, ihe vis-id championship on. 27 432.5 lb. of milk, r bht whose fi t average was 3 64! J per cent —“ New York Farmer.” -
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Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1440, 28 April 1914, Page 5
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