HOW LONG A COW MAY GIVE MILK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4876, 14 November 1894, Page 2

HOW LONG A COW MAY GIVE MILK.

The idea that; a cow lias passed >3' her days of' Usefulness at nine .or.ten years of age is shaken by tlio bettor; : idea that the life 1 of a cow depends-:? upon the treatment sho receives. If- . valuable in the dairy sho is likely to ■ v get humane treatment, and- we see her going far beyonnd tlio service- ■; „ able age usually allotted to cows, Amencan'recoi'ds shoiv that Duch- ■ ess Alice, calved Brd August, 1861, produced 17, recorded calves,, the last 1 at 22 years ofage; Helen Erie calved 26th Nov, 1868, produced 10 calves, tUe last ,ftt 19 years of age; Hen- , rie'tta Morgan, calved Ist Sept, 1840, produced 14 recorded calves, the last 1 at,l9 ( years of age; Lucille, calved 16th June, 1868, produced her last a recorded calf at 19 years of age; || Rose, calved- 3rd • June, 1863, pro-: duced. 14 calves, the last at 17' years, Snowdrop, calved lQth.of-, January, 1851, produced' 15 "recorded' calves, the last at seventeen years of age; Ursala 2nd, calved 11th March, 1863 produced five recorded j&es, the -' last at twenty years of ,'agffl ' These are . only specimens of .'some 60 samples of cows, breeding ;at from fifteen to twenty yeara of age.