A Dexter Cow's Milk Record
♦ ■-• •, . An English correspondent records the following wonderful record of a littfc Dexter cow :— ln Mr. Martin Simon's Xidmore Grange Berd there is at the present time a caw, Red Rose, whose record, I think, is almost unparalleled ; she calved the last week in March, 1892, and her milk was weighed (as every cow's in the herd is) morning and evening as soon as taken from her, commencing from the Ist of April ; and from tdal day to the Ist of April in*t. she gave 4 tons Ocwt dqrs and 201 b, averaging nearly 30 gallons per day for the whole year. Bed Hose was shown at the meeting of the R.A.S.E. at Warwick last year and took the Ist prize in her class. Her udder was at that time so beautifully shaped and so near the ground that 1 heard the remark made, " Row do you get the pail under her ?" I have no means on the farm of weighing: this little cow ; but she does not stand much higher than a large donkey, and I believe her live weight would not exceed 9cwt, so that within the year she has given ten times the weight of her body in milk.
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Feilding Star, 20 June 1893, Page 4
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206A Dexter Cow's Milk Record Feilding Star, 20 June 1893, Page 4
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