The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-04-15
WORLDS BEST cow DEAD.
A Fall in a Ditch at Columbia
Fatal to Champion Butter
and Milk Producer.
prom he unlYsrsItY hilssouri.

Pedro's Estells, she 8 year old
Jersey COW which held the worlds
record for production Of butter and
milk, died Monday at the state farm
The COW fell into q small ditch on
her back and was unable to get up
She died before she was found. When
cows we're driven to the barn as usu'
al Sunday night, Pedro's Estells was
missing. A search was made and the
COW was found In the ditch.
"The death OF the COW is the great
est loss the college OF agriculture
ever had" said Dean d. ]. Waters
Tuesday morning.
C. Il. Eckles, professor OF dairy
husbandry, said the COW would sell
at auction for about $1,000.
Pedro's Estells, bred and owned
by the Missouri Agricultural college
at Columbia, produced In one year
712 pounds Of butter, or practically
her own weight In butter, SURPRISING
all previous worlds records by more
than 100 pounds. This one COW
would have supplied the tables Of
seven Missouri families OF five per-
sons each with butter in the entire
year and would have supplied in ad.
dition q large amount Of buttermilk
and skim milk for cooking and drink
Ing.
II this cows milk had been sold at
the average net price commanded by
milk In Columbia, seven cents q
quart, her gross return for the year
would have been $414.75. The cost
OF feed consumed by Pedro's Estella
In the year, and on which she pro-
duced $414. rs worth OF milk and
cream and butter, was only SIS.
This COW would have kept an aver
age student In the university, paying
all Of his expenses for books, cloth.
Ing, tuition; paid for the feed she
consumed and allowed books and
clothing for the small brother at
home.
The average COW Of the state pro.
duces about 140 pounds Of butter In
a year. This little Jersey on the
Agricultural farm produced 712
pounds OF butter, or more than five
ordinary COWS yield.
hit we're possible to substitute
this sort OF a COW for those now on
the average farm, four out Of every
five cows might be sold for beef with.
out affecting the total butter pro-
duction. Instead, therefore, OF 100,.
900 men being required to do the
milking 20, 900 would be sufficient.
The average butter sells for about
twenty cents a pound, which makes
the return for the average COW about
$2S per year. On account OF the i'm.
proved, methods employed at the
Agricultural college the butter pro.
ducsd there sold last year for an
average OF thirty-three cents per
pound. The actual return for the
butter alone produced by this record
COW last year was therefore $235, OF
1907 more than the average COW
brings her owner.
This COW was fed on an average oil
about twelve pounds OF grain day,
together with about fifteen pounds
OF corn silage and ten pounds OF al
falia hay, throughout the year, and
in summer green alfalfa, green clover
and green corn and fresh bluegrass
we're slternated. The grain consist
ed OF about one-iourth corn chop
one.iourth wheat bran, one.iourtt
ground oats, one-eighth linseed oil
meal and the remaining one-eightt
either middlings, gluten, hominy
feed or germ meal for the sake o
variety. At no time was she fed tt
the full limit Of her appetite or to thu
point that would in the slightest de
gree iniure her health or affect hel
future usefulness. She was fed ant
MIXED three times a day, 4 o'clocl
in the morning, IL O'Clock noon
and = O'Clock In the evening, thu
dividing the twenty-iour hour periot
into three equal parts.