Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-22
THE GREATEST MIXER.
AN OFFICIAL BUT ALMOST INCRED.
IBLE RECORD.
A Cow That Produced 3O,31S
Pounds of Milk in 365 Con-
secutive Days.

| The following is the record of the
greatest mixer in the world. 1t is not
only wonderful is almost beyond be-
lief. The COW is the famous Peitertie IL,
born on April 25, 1877, at Boxum, Fries
land, Holland, on the farm of T. K. Kup-
erus. She has yielded during 365 consecu-
tive days the enormous quantity of 80
| 3lS2 pounds of milk-which exceeds all
the milk records ever made by any COW.
living or dead, by four thousand two
hundred and ninety-seven pounds and six
ounces.
Let us try to comprehend this immense
quantity of milk. 1t is 4,437 .3S quarts.
1t is more than fifteen tons It would fill
tifty-seven hogsheads and leave eighteen
quarts over. 1t would fill tank one foot
square and nearly one-eighth of a mile
high, or in other words, the quantity is
more than 4S2 cubic feet At six cents a
quart this COW earned 1886 25 during her
record year-enough money to buy thirty
five ordinary cows While these esti-
mates, by weight, gallons and cubic feet
do not represent a quantity beyond com
prehension, they do represent fact i'm
possible for the average mind to take in
that one COW produced this more than
fifteen tons of milk in year. Yet such is
the truth.
A study of this marvellous record in de-
tail, comparisons with the other highest
records, and history of Pietertje H..
must still further interest the reader in
this wonderful COW. All the care and
science applied to breeding for ten centu-
ries, it would seem, is centered in Pietertie
IL, and in her is this care rewarded.
Pietertje ii. was imported by Alonzo
Bradley, of Lee, Mass, on November l.
1882. ''At the time | bought her. SAYS
Mr.. Bradley, "I visited hundreds of herds
in Holland, and think am safe in say
ing that l saw 1000 cows milked before |
found Pieterte III. | looked after her
dam, Pietertje, and found her a Won
ful COW, The milk veins were extra
ordinary in their development, extending
fully forward and losing themselves in the
shoulder-blades." Mr.. Bradley, after keep
ing Pietertje ii. short time on his
farm at Lee, sold her. She is now the
property of Dallas 3. Whipple, of Cuba,
Allegany county, n. Y, who gives the
following story of her life up to the time
she began her famous record:
son visiting several herds of Holsteins
in the New England States in September.
1884, l came across Pietertie ii. in Elizur
Smiths herd at Lee, Mass, he having
bought her soon after she was imported.
After examining her, and seeing her
MIXED, | was fully satisfied that she was
capable Of milking more than any COW |
had ever seen milked so l bought her.
together with twelve others, and shipped
them home to Cuba, where she has re-
mained ever since. With her persistent
milking, and the low condition she was in. |
l did not think it advisable to undertake
to make a years record, although she
MIXED 1882 pounds after dropping her
next calf. | delayed breeding her, so that
twenty months elapsed between the births
OF her two calves. This was preparatory
to her making this record, although she |
milked sixteen out OF the twenty months |
before we could dry her up. / am in
formed that this is the only time she
has ever been dry since first coming in
milk"
The most reliable authorities state that
the highest previous milk record of the
world was 26,021 pounds and ounces, or
4, ,297 pounds 6 ounces less than that of
Pietertje II. The largest quantity of milk
ever given by any COW in one day was 116
pounds; the largest for thirty day 1929 |
pounds ounce. Here is the detailed
record of Pietertje IL, commenced on Feb
ruary "a, 1887, and closed February %,
lSSS-365 days. (She dropped her last calf
on February II, 1887:
Ihs ozs