The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-11-24
Remarkable Cows.


ion nowadays among the owners of high priced
mich cows, during the season when the flow
of milk is naturally largest to feed for extra
Yields of milk and butter, and announce the
phenomenal results gained on a certain day or
week, as contributions toward solving the true
status of the breed in which they are most in
terested. In point Of fact, as all practical
breeders know, such statistics are valuable
only as showing the possibilities of breeding
and feeding when one purpose alone is in view.
When it comes to deciding the question of the
best average, or most profitable yield of
breed, the record, to be trustworthy, must be
for the entire year, and is most valuable when
it is for the combined product of a number CT
COWS of the same breed rather than when con-
fined to any individual animal Stubborn facts
like these do not in the least interrupt the
publication of occasional big records, and these
big records, of course, excite a deal of curios-
ity and interest in the animal concerned. The
admirers of the HolsteiD breed have recently
been gratifed by the announcement Of yield
of ~ pounds of milk given on certain day
by Holstein COW belonging to the Vice-Pres-
ident of the Holstieu Breeders Association,
William NJ. Singerly, of Philadelphia. Natur-
ally this big record gave eciat TO the fourteenth
annual session Of the association, which occur
red directly after, in Chicago, where Mr.. Sin
gerly was reelected to the Office of Yice-Pres-
ident The triumph of this special Holstein
COW and her admirers was, however, of short
duration, for the enterprising Aderuey Asso-
citation soon announced a weeks yield of
Jersey COW known TO the dairy world as Pm
cess Second, and belonging TO the estate of the
late Samuel Shoemaker, as $685. pounds Of
milk, yielding &c pounds and ~ ounces of
butter. While the average yield per day Of
Princess Second was not so large as that spe-
cial days yield of the Siugerly COW, the but
ter product was remarkable, exceeding the
heretofore unapproached butter record of Mary
Annie, Of ST. Lambert, which was Sc pounds
l215 ounces for one week The largest milk
record for single day is claimed for Empress
(HH.B. 1861 owned now by Garrit S. Miller,
Petersboro, New York The record IN ques-
tion was made however, in Holland, before she
was imported, and was l0s.9i pounds. She
has given since Mr.; Miller bought her 1885
pounds in a single day. 0udine, also owned
by Mr.. Miller, enjoys the reputation of SIN
gle day milk record Of 30 pounds and S ounces.
1t is only fair to state that the Empress, which
scored the topmost figure ever reached in milk
records in a single day, not only on her native
heath, but also in the country, has gained
since coming here this reputation Of the second
largest milk yield recorded for one year by
any COW, Of any breed, namely, I9,7l4Is lbs
J. d Wales, Of Iowa, who, by-the-by, is Sec
reiary Of the Holstein Breeders Association
for the current year, is pOssessor of Jautje,
who boasts a milk yield for one day of 90
pounds eight ounces, and yield Of 1928
pounds and eight ounces in 81 days, an aver
age per day for 81 conse, utive days Of IS s
pounds. Tie largest annual milk record ever
made was that Of the late Holslein COW Echo,
(22I, H.H.B,) whose death occurred a short
time ago. after giving birth to three male
calves, all Of which were well formed and
healthy animals. In the year ending May IS,
1851, this wonderful COW yielded 23,7T5 =
pounds OF milk. Her largest monthly record
occurred in August. 1888, and was 2,29OlS
pounds, or % pounds liIs ounces per day.
Echo was the property of F. c. Stevens, pro-
prietoT Of the Maple Wood Stock Farm, at
Utica, y. Y. Her owner short time previous
to her death refused 5000 for her. To rem
der the records here given quite Ineligible to
readers who buy milk by the quart, and whose
idea Of the source from whence it comes are
sadly confused with dirty tin cans, water and
chalk, 1t is explained that in general a quart
OF milk weighs about pounds and ? ounces
The average annual butter product of good
COWS is ZOO to $50 pounds. The quantity of
milk required to make pound of butter ranges
all the way from eight to 20 pounds according
to the quality of the milk. 1t may also be
well to add for the benefit OF sidewalk farmers
who hold prejudices in favor Of this OF that
breed, that long continued tests have proved
two points eonclusiveiy, viz: The Holstein
outrank all other breeds in milk, and the Jer-
seys are no less supreme in regard to butter.
Count Ferdinand de Lesseps has had in
his employment thousands of Italians,
Turks, and Frenchmen, working on the
Suez Canal, and has therefore had abund-
ant opportunities to test the relative nu-
tritive properties of vegetable and animal
foods He says that the advantage Of
cereals over meat IS five to one Count
de Lesseps esteems cotton-seed oil very
highly as substitute for pork, lard, but
ter, SSc-
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by a Milwaukee furniture firm is a feet
wide and has nine Compartments, each
intended 10 hold one Of the purchasers
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