The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-01-09
CHAMPION COW
EARNS 81 DAY
BY Skillful Care She Has Been Able
To Produce More Milk Than Any
Other American Cow During Year.

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COLUMBUS, Mo. Jan. s.--Do you
keep a COW?
Would you like TO keep COW
Have you huneh to be DAIRY
mana farmer?
Well here's the story OF Josephine
Chief Josephine, they call her-wno
IS at present the champion COW oil
America
This is the milkmans problem
How can produce the greatest
amount OF milk and butter at the
least expense
Chief Josephine, bred and owned
by the agricultural department OF the
University of Missouri, has come
nearer solving this problem than any
other COW on earth.
Ii costs about IL cents a day 10
keep Josephine, and her daily pro
duction is worth more than -.
Thus Josephine makes as much
each day as the average mechanic
She makes more each day than the
average preacher, and almost as
much as the average college probes
sor
The plumber, the glass blower and
the head waiter have something on
Josephine in the way of earnings, but
most of the rest of us might do worse
than TO work at Josephine's scale.
or course, the IL cents expense
does not include all the little extra
attention which Josephine receives
from Van Note, foreman OF the dairy
barns, but as an Offset to this she is
the mother of calf valued at $3,OoO'
which is not included in the - esd
mate of her product
The years test which Josephine is
now undergoing will end Jan. IL, and
unless she falls below her present
daily average, she will exceed the
worlds record.
In the first four months OF the test
Josephine yielded 1885 pounds oil
milk, or nearly ten times her own
weight. The highest single day
yield was 10 1-2 pounds.
When half of the strenuous year
had rolled around. Josephine had 70
her credit product OF 1884 pounds
Of milk. This exceeded her only real
competitor, a Wisconsin COW, named
Johanna, by 1928 pounds.
At eight months Josephine still
easily held the worlds record, OF 81,
$50 pounds Of milk During the en-
tire eight months she maintained q
daily average of SO pounds, or AZ
! quarts-l0 1-2 gallons.
BEGINNING with the ninth month
her record began TO drop perceptibly
but at the end OF the month she was
still more than ton ahead OF her
competitor.
Chief Josephine is now a little over
eight years old, and Is OF the Hoi
stein breed, otherwise known as
Tristan or Holland.
OF course, Josephine's diet is care
fully and systematically looked after
She il fed alfalfa hay and corn silage
for coarse feed, and for grain she Ia
given mixture of corn, bran, lin
seed meal and cottonseed meal The
amount she requires of each Is care
fully computed from the chemical
composition Of the feeds.
During the warm summer months
Josephine consumed about thirty gal.
Ions of water daily. Just now half
or less OF this amount is all that she
calls for. The water is warmed to a
temperature of about 40 degrees
which has been found to give best re-
turns In milk.
Through the whole routine of her
daily life, Josephine is never forced
to do anything; above all, she is new
er struck or excited. Up to a few
weeks ago, she was MIXED four times
each day. Now one milking has beer
discontinued.
The question today is will Jose
phine win the worlds champion
ship"
Three months ago the answer tc
this question would have been EN-
phatically in the affirmative. But 20
day there Is an air Of uneasiness oul
at the state farm. She Is champion
still. but 1t remains 10 be seer
whether she remains champion at the
end OF the twelvemonth.
Josephine is no freak. What sh,
has done can be repeated in any nor
NAL milk-giving COW.
II Is a fact that any COW can b,
developed to give milk beyond wha
is today considered good average
IL is largely because dairymen are
ignorant of the latent possibilities o.
their herds that the present average
| is so low
All that is required for a start Is
COW that is normal in every re
spect. From this point man is the
chief factor-man with training
such as is impaired at the college OF
agriculture OF the University of Mis-
souri,, and at other like colleges the
country over.