WORLD’S MILKING RECORD

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 9, 7 January 1913, Page 3

WORLD’S MILKING RECORD

American breeders of daily stock have already achieved fame as the owners of cows yielding phenomenal quantities of milk. Incredible as i may seem, there are several cows m the State which, under an unimpeachable system of supervision, have been known to make over 1001 b. of butter. A cow that would average—throughout a period of twelve months— twenty pounds of butter a week, affords a wonderful exemplification of the extent to which milk making functions can be stimulated. In such tests the cows are not only grazed on the richest pastures, but are, in addition, hand fed with a generous allowance of concentrated fodder. While it is probable that such heavy milkers as those under review would* in their milk output, show a profit— notwithstanding the extravagant manner in which they a ,. e fed—this feature of the case is not considered. The problem attempted is to make the cow yield the last pound of milk that she can be tempted to produce under the most elaborate systems of nutrition. Questions of cost do not arise. The object is to create a. record, no matter what harm may happen to the cow from the forcing process to which she is invaiiably submitted.

A Chicago correspondent supplies a well-known agricultural journal with some interesting particulars of a dairy cow, which has recently created a new record in America. Banostine Belle do Kol, as she is styled, is a pedigreed Holstein-Friesian cow who recently in a 365-day test, produced 27,4041 bof milk—nearly 2700 gallons—from which 13231 bof butter could have been made. With this record (says the correspondent), Banostine has secured the title of “Queen of Dairy Cattle.”

The cow belongs to tlie brothers Dan Dimmick, of Maplecrest Farm, East Claridon, Ohio, who own a number of valuable and heavy milking Holsteins. A guarantee of the accuracy of the figures is supplied in the fact that the year’s test was conducted under the control of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Ohio.

The enormous amount of milk which this cow produced means that on the year’s average her daily output was gallons—sufficient, remarks the correspondent, to supply 34 families with an American quart daily. For the first week her daily average was nearly 10 gallons, and for the first month over 9) gallons. Such records have never been known In the annals of milk production, and there need be little hesitation in awarding Banostine the palm as a world’s record milk pro-

ducer. Translated into butter, the cow’s output is also exceptional. Assuming that commercial butter contains 85 per cent, of butter-fat, the year’s milk production was equivalent to 13231 b of commercial butter, or an average of 3|lb a day for every day in the year.