RECORD YIELD OF MILK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1939, Page 8

RECORD YIELD OF MILK

ESTABLISHED BY SHORTHORN. Cherry, the English non-pedigree Dairy Shorthorn cow and world’s record milk yield breaker, was publicly milked before more than 100 agriculturists from all over England and several from abroad in a yard at Redhouse. Amesbury, the farm belonging to her owners. Messrs Wort and Way. It was the last milking in Cherry's officially recorded year, during which she has created four new records, and become the first cow in'the world to yield more than 4000 gallons of milk in a single year. Donald McKie, the young son of Mr Alexander McKie. Messrs Wort and Way's farm manager, milked Cherry on the last morning, and when the weight of her final milking had been taken it was found that Cherry had yielded 4164 gallons during the past 365 days, or 18 tons lOcwt 201 b. Her average has thus been llgals 3pts. or lewt 21b per day, which works out at more than her own weight in. milk per week. In producing this amount of milk Cherry has used up nearly 1001 b cf phosphoric acid, equivalent to the amount present in 2cwt of phosphate of lime, or in about 3cwt of the i more familiar sterilised feeding bone ■ flour. Mr McKie is a firm believer in mineral supplementation, and Cherry ' received each day amounts ranging from : ;lb to 111 b of a specially prepared mineral mixture, which contained sterilised bone flour, carbonate of lime, common salt, and potassium iodide, together with traces cf salts of some other elements. There is ho doubt that the additional minerals provided have played a large part in maintaining Cherry in her excellent condition. The world’s record yield was previously held by the American Friesian cow Carnation Ormsby Butter King, which gave 3860 gallons in a year.