The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-06-02
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
(By R A. Whitfield, Florence, Miss,
A MILKING TEST AT THE MIS-
souri, AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

trained for milking test, to extent over
period of sos consecutive days, Mis-
souri, Chief Josephine, an S-year-old Hol-
stein dairy cow owned by the Agricultural
College of the University of Missouri, has
already annexed the state championship
and is now ranked within four of the
worlds record, which is the object of the
milking test she is now being put through.
Josephine weighs 1900 pounds and pro-
duced Io3 pounds of milk a day for
ten days, or nearly her own weight. Her
highest mark in one day is the equal of
thirteen gallons. The average consumer
of milk in cities uses two-thirds of a pint
per day. Josephine would supply hotel
with 165 boarders, if she produced thir-
teen gallons day.
Josephine is a pure-bred Holestein, born
on the Agricultural College farm. Her
sire, Missouri Chief, took first prizes at
twenty-six state fairs. Josephine is three
generations removed from the land of
dykes and windmills, and is the black
and white dairy known as Holland"
"Friseian" or "Holestein."
To produce thirteen gallons CT mild in
one day, Josephine drinks twelve three
gallon pals of water, or about $50 to 27S
pounds of water heated to a temperature
of 10. degrees during the winter. She is
fed 20 pounds of alfalfa hay, IS pounds of
corn silage and "a pounds Of grains, in
Guiding corn, bran, linseed meal and glu-'
ton feed, the last being a by-product of
corn.
Josephine is MIXED at a. m, at noon,
a s D. m, and at 10 o'clock at night. She
is fed every six hours.
On one of the preliminary test, when
Josephine was being trained for try at
the worlds record, she produced 1888
pounds of milk. If every cow in Missouri
did as WELL Missouri cows could supply
all the milk consumed in Missouri, Kan
sas, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois and have
enough left over to supply dish of ice
cream to every student in the State Uni-
versity On commencement day.
Three or four hundred students in agri-
culture are introduced to Josephine every
year, and she is used by Prof. c. H.
Eckles in demonstrating dairying prin-
ciples to his classes. Josephine is gentle
and can be approached and petted by any
one. She has never been treated harshly
pslu!od usaq seq pooqJIeo Iaq moIJ pue
toward possible wcfld's record test She
is now on the test. Students of the Agrl-
cultural College wait on her in squads.
They milk and feed her, carry her water
and clean out her stall. She is watched
closely by several hundred men, all of
whom are interested in seeing that the
directions issued by Prof c. H. Eckles are
followd exactly. Her whole day is as
carefully mappd out and her times of
taking food and water are as carefully
scheduled as is the case with convalescents
in the City Hospital in the hands of
trained nurses.
Ninety DAYS of the years test have
elapsed and in that time Josephine has
evidenced her milk-producing powers. She
has produced as much milk and butter in
the ninety days as two Missouri cows
produce in a year. Only three cows in the
world have ever hit Josephines gait, and
one of these was the present worlds
champion, a cow owned in Wisconsin.
Josephines daily butter products is enough
to supply forty persons.
Students and alumni of the Agricultural
college OF the OHlfCISIly VI N1iooOuAA an
watching Josephine's year test with the
hope that the worlds dairy record will
be annexed by Missouri. 81 regret that
so much has been said about Josephine's
test for the worlds record" said Prof.
C. H. Eckles today, "but | will say that
Josephine isNnot disappointing US. If the
mark she has made in the past ninety
DAYS can be maintained / think that she
will come very close to the worlds record"
Summer now is here" and it is the
hope of many that the seasons will be OF
4 good crop making quality all through
the growing months. Grass and other
vegetation grow faster during June than
in any other month--seasons being equal
all round. The tardy plow man will
find a big job on his hands if he Tags
toe. much. Whet the hoes every morning
and use firm and steady hand in hand
ling it against the stubborn grasses and
weeds.
cHINGH BUG.
Prof. r w. Hand, Entonologist Of