The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-20
THIS COW A
WORLD BEATER
All Past Records In Butter Making
$ Surpassed by Her-Has Had Her
4 Picture Printed.

3s.5 A COW owned Dy II. ~ 1tCe, u ouS-
sex county New Jersey, has just
sprung into fame as having surpassed
the worlds butter record. The figures
are official, for they We're kept by the
New Jersey agricultural experiment
station, says the New York Sun.
This COW has just had her picture
printed in the American Agriculturist.
She is registered as No 4S426 in the
Holstein- Friesian family and carries
around with her the formidable name
of Aggie Cornucopia Pauline.
In 30 days, beginning with February
80 last, Pauline yielded 2,64O.25 pounds
of milk AS gallon of milk weighs
about eight pounds, her product in
so days was $50 gallons, or IL gal
Ions day. Anyone who has seen the
milk pail results of the night and
morning milking of the average COW
knows that this Yield is simply enor-
NOUS
The Holstein-Friesian stock are very
remarkable mixers, and their average
yield is from five to seven gallons
day; but Pauline has doubled the yield
Of the good registered HoIstein-Frie-
sian CO" anu Has SUI IdSSeu ny oHS-
third the record of most of the supe-
rior animals.
The butter product for % days, or
four weeks, was 129.9O7 pounds, or
an average OF 321a pounds a week.
This was a mid-winter record, but
probably the season made no differ
ence in the yield, for Pauline had the
best COW feed that money could buy,
and every possible care.
But the result is none the less as
tonishing. At this rate, the COW would
produce in the 50 weeks Of the year
1,7O3 pounds of butter. or from 800
to 400 pounds more than she weighs.
When she is in milking condition her
weight is between 1900 and 1,4O0
pounds.
The best previous butter record was
made over year ago by COW in
Oneida county that produced 305s
pounds in seven days.
Pauline has prodigious capacity
for food, but she is eNcusable when she
turns so much Of it into milk. Dur
ing the last two weeks OF the test
she consumed daily from 10 to Is
pounds of corn silase. p pounds OF
turnips eight pounds of clover hay
and three pounds peas and oats hay,
besides 81 pounds OF Wheat bran,
cream gluten, hominy meal and ajax
flakes.
She would be expensive TO board il
she did not do SO much for her keep.
But, after all, she was producing milk
and butter at a relatively low cost.
The cost of producing milk was only
IL cents a quart and OF butter 49,
cents a pound. These figures, how
over do not include the cost OF labor.
Beauty and utility are finely blended
in Pauline, for her picture shows that
she is one Of the handsomest animals
OF her breed. She is a native OF New
Jersey, but comes of one of the most
famous families Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
in the Netherlands.
She is the mother OF an interesting
family, comprising TWO sons and two
| daughters. Milk is only one OF the
products that make Pauline a very
valuable asset. for her oldest son was
sold for $4,000. her youn gest daueh-
ter .wc and a half months ole. for
second son have refused $500 for
! him.
Thus the income from Pauline, over
and above her living expenses. is very
substantial.
All this shows the possibilities OF
breeding. II is supposed that all our
cattle had common origin in the wild
cattle that existed in the ancient tor
csts OF Europe and that the wonderful
improvements that have been made
n those ancient small, rough and
rugged cattle are the work OF skillful
breeders who had definite objects in
view.
They developed the races that are
famous. some for fatt1nin2 qualities
and others for milk, and the better
grades OF cattle in our country have
had the advantage OF the finest Skill
OF Europe and America in this line.
BRYAN'S VIEW OF PLATFORM.
81 shall not misrepresent the situa