MILK INDUSTRY.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 145, 12 August 1926, Page 3

MILK INDUSTRY.

ANOTHER RECORD BROKEN. The cow Beauty is reported to have in a period of seven days, during each of which her milk was machine-skimmed and churned separately, no less than 28 lbs 4 ounces of butter. This is an average of over 4 lbs iper daJy. She -is a registered dairy Shorthorn, owned by the Agricultural Students’ Department of Mt. Melleray, Cappoquin, Ireland. At the present time Beauty is said to be yielding 10 gallons of 4 per cent milk per day. The exceptional nature of her work is indicated by comparison with the published results of the trials at the Royal and, London Dairy Shows. At the Chester Royal Show in 1925 the -highest ’butter yield in the '24 liours test was 2 lbs 13 ounces; at the 1924 Show held at Leicester 3 lbs 3| ounces was not exceeded. The best production in the butter test at the London Dairy Show of 1925 was 3 lbs 21 o*ujnces; while at the 1924 Show the highest yield was no more than 2 lbs 12 ounces. In the 1925 London Dairy Show Snowdrop 2nd, a South Devon cow, yielded 3 lbs 21 ounces, which was the higihest yield of any treed. (Beauty’s performance eclipses the notable yield of Major Yates’ dairy Shorthorn cow, Clara’s Beauty, that gave 4 lbs ounces of butter to win the tests at the London Dairy Show of 1923, on which occasion her nearest rival—another Shorthorn—gave 3 lbs 4J ounces. Beauty was bred, in County Waterlord, and was purchased for Mount Melleray from Mr Thomas Connors, of Fa-ha, Kilmacthomas. She gave birth to twin bull calves by the Mount Melleray stud bull, D.rumsnatt Star, whose dam, Orphan Princess, was Ireland’s finst 2000-gallon cow. She is fed on a balanced ration, and is milked and f*ed legularly by the students 1 under the supervision of their superiors. She was the test cow in the Bismo.re Milk Recording Society in 1925, with a yield of 12,495 lbs of milk in 45 weeks. The milk yielded contained an average of 4.02 per cent of butterfat. Beauty is well known at the various Irish cattle shows, where she has won several first prizes.—English exchange.