FIRST 3000-GALLON COW

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4506, 20 December 1922, Page 4

FIRST 3000-GALLON COW

MILKED FOUR TIMES DAILY. The first cow to give 3000 gallons of milk in a year has arrived. She is the Brit’sh Friesian Brookside Colantlia, eight years and seven months, belonging to the Hache herd, Worthing, owned by Sir John F. Ramsden and Colonel Thynne. Colantlia’S' approach to the 3000 gallons a year mark has been watched with interest in the dairy-farming world. On October 26 at 11 a.jn. (her second milking of the day, as since January it has been necessary to milk ! hei four times daily) hers yield reached 3001 gallons in 338 days. It is only four years since “The Daily Mail” announced the arrival of the first 2000'-gallohs cow, Eske Hetty, who was greeted as a freak. A few years before that the 1000-igallons cow was similarly regarded. There are now 59 2|ooo-.gallons cows in Great Britain, of which 55 a>i’e British Friesians, 2 Shorthorns, and one each of the Ayrshire and Red Poll breeds. Three-thousand-gallpns Colantha is five ordinary cows in one. She has frequently given more than 11 gallons of milk in a day, and her daily average throughout l her life is 5% gallons. She lias had five calves, and yielded more Ohan '5O times her own weight in milk. Simultaneously with Cplantha’s fefit has appeared the first 2009-gallons •heifer—Chaddesley Glen Stately, a Friesian belonging to Sir Charles Markham —who, with: her first calf, has yielded 20'04 gallons in 358 days.