The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-09-21
Signals Lily Flagg 31035-The Cham
piOn Jersey.

In the light of every dsy experiences
on the farm aud in the dairy it. is mar
velous that little COW weighing only
$50 pounds should produce LOAF pounds
and three fourths ounces of butter in one
yesr, but here we have the best possible
evidence that it has been done. 1t is
very hard for man, whose COWS scarce
ly produce two hundred pounds of but
ter yearly, to believe that a single COW
can produce the yield of FIVE such COWS.
But when we know how these big re-
cords have been reached, step by step,
one COW, and then another raising the
figures, we are convinced OF the possi-
bilities Of such performances with care
full breeding aud feeding.
The contest among the Jerseys has
happily been for champion prize cup
that is passed along from one record
breaker to another. This cup was in
troduced by E. F. Appleton at the time
he took the record of 936 pounds four
teen and three.fourths ounces from
Landeeer's Fancy with Eurotisama's 945
pounds nine ounces. Then it was won
by Bisson's Belle with 1923 pounds ff-
teen and five.eighths ounces and now
Signals Lily Flagg has the cup, with the
record of 1 ,O47 pounds and three.fourths
ounces. The popularity of these con-
tests is shown in the following invita-
ton: "The citizens of Huntsville, Ala
bama, requests the pleasure of your
presence, at reception to be given at
the Monte sano Hotel, on Wednesday,
June 10Th, at half-past eight o'clock in
honor Of Gen. S. q. Moore; W. 3.
Matthews, Esq; Captain Milton Humes
and Mr.. L. G. Goodel." These were the
gentlemen who owned the COW and con-
Quoted the test. At this reception and
feast the Champion Cup was presented
and the whole city of Huntsville paid
honors to the little COW that won the
prize. The test began June l, 1891 at
which time her highest daily yield of
milk was fifty pounds four ounces con-
tanning four pounds six ounces of butter.
In July she fell off slightly, the highest
daily yield in that month being thirty
seven pounds eleven ounces milk, con-
tanning four pounds two ounces butter.
In August, September and October, she
about held her own. In November she
fell off with her highest yield of milk at
twenty-five pound six ounces and best
butter yield of two pounds fifteen and
one. half ounces a day. On December
Sth the record was stopped and bull
calf was dropped. At that time she was
giving twelve pounds eleven ounces
milk and making twelve ounces of but
ter day. On the fifth of January the
record again began with twenty'eight
pounds nine ounces milk and two pounds
twelve ounces butter daily. This was
about her normal yield through that
month and February. In March she
slightly increased the yield, the highest
days work in milk was forty 'one pounds
ten ounces, containing three pounds
twelve ounces of butter. In April her
best daily record ran up to thirty nine
pounds twelve ounces of milk and three
pounds fifteen ounces of butter. In May
the LAST month of the test, her highest
days work in milk was thirty -four pounds
six ounces, and in butter four pounds ten
and three-fourths ounces. In these ci-
tations the highest milk and butter re-
cords for the month rarely occurred on the
same day.
Up to May Oath the test had been
Whist is called private" that is it was
not conducted under the management of
the American Jersey Cattle Club, though
it was we'll known throughout the coun-
try that the test was going on, and all
were invited to inspect the management.
During the last week of the year an Of
fetal tester of the Club, the well known
Valancey E. Fuller, who owned Mary
Anne of St. Lambert, presided with sew.
eral other we'll known dairy authorities,
and, under better advice or conscious of
the Importance of the occasion, Signals
Lily Flagg surpassed all her previous
work. The sum of the years work was
milk O,954,O3 pounds and butter 1,O47,-
04 pounds. The official test began May
oath and continued seven days; the re-
cord being twenty.seven pounds three
and one.half ounces Of butter from lS9
pounds seven ounces milk, or less than
seven pounds of milk to one pound OF
butter.
The following is the feeding ofsig.
NAILS Lily Flagg for the full year. She
began with ration of two gallons corn
meal, three gallonu wheat bran, one
gallon ground oats, ,hree quarts oil
meal and two gallons silage, given daily
in two feeds. Gradually this ration
was increased until she took four gall
Ions corn meal, four gallons ground oats,
two gallons wheat bran, one and one
half gallons oil meal and about fifty
pounds of clover hay. As her time for
calving approached the feed was re-
duced, and on December 30th she had
only four gallons of bran. After calv-
ing the grain was graduallr restored to
the full ration and kept up until the last
week when, under the advice of Mr.. Full
ler, two quarts of oil meal were added.
During the whole year the COW received
precisely the same treatment as that Civ.
en- the general herd. She ran on rath-
er poor pasture and took the rain and
wind with the other COWS.
Signals Lily Flagg was bred in Ken
lucky and while strictly Thoroughbred
and a registered COW she does not belong
to any of the fashionable families IS
the {; -st mart of her name would imply,