COW’S PRODUCTION

Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20691, 29 December 1938, Page 9

COW’S PRODUCTION

RECORD IN TARANAKI REMARKABLE TEST MADE (By Telegraph—Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday Producing 17,6501 bof milk and 9061 b of butterfat in 305 days and then carrying on to complete the full 365 days with approximately 19.9 4 slh of milk and 10241 bof butterfat, Cyrilla’s Twylish Girl, owned by Mr E. J. Clough, of the Pinecrest stud, Inglewood, has broken all New Zealand records for the 305 days’ test and easily displaces another Taranakiowned cow, Meon Lueulla. the previous mature class leader in the 305 days’ test with 7411 b of fat. The performance is all the more remarkable because she started her test when 11 years 83 days old and oalved very soon after the completion of her test. The test was put up on twlce-a-day milking by hand. The cow was grazed as usual with test cows, and the only concentrate given was meal mixed with bran in varying amounts according to the season. With the exception of the final two or three closing months of the test. Cyrilla’.i Twylish Girl headed the merit list each month. Her average daily milk yield was 54.731 b, with an average test of 5.155.

While the yield of 10241 b of fat put up by Cyrilla’s Twylish Girl has been heaten on four previous occasions, three times by Taranaki-bred cows, and is 1961 b lower than the record of 1220.891 b of fat established by the famed Woodlands Felicie. her milk production of 19.9401 b is nearly 15001 b greater than that of the previous highest milk producer.