Red Polls Set New Milk Record

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 17, 8 November 1948, Page 3

Red Polls Set New Milk Record

An Isle of Wight farmer, Mr F. T. Fisk, has succeeded in creating an all-breeds record with a Red Poll cow and her daughter in milk porduction. That is the report of the Isle of Wight Dairy Husbandry Officer, who states, “The Milk Marketing Board is unable to find any other case where a mother and daughter have succeeded in being first and second in the National Milk Averages.” This applies to pedigree animals, a non-pedigree'Red Poll of Mr A. Tibbenham actually having led the breed in. 1946-47. Mr Fisk established his herd of Red Polls in 1934 when he flew from the Isle of Wight to Culford in West Suffolk to attend the dispersal sale of the late Earl Cadogan, to buy for eight guineas one of the heifer calves. This animal has yielded with her tenth calf, 17,6371 bin 305 days. In the same period her daughter, Apse Matilda, produced 17,5981 b with her . third calf.

The old cow, Culford Mignonette, which was one of the original animals in the Apse herd at Shanklin, yielded 20,9741 b in her full lactation in 394 days. Her daughter, according to the National Averages, has given a total of 21,0201 bto calve on the 418th day without a dry period.