The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-03-01
BUTTER TESTS
ARE FINISHED
Yakima Valley Holstein Cows
Show Themselves Eligible for
the Advanced Registry
MESSRS. DAVIS AND TODD
SAMPLE THEIR ANIMAL S
Word From New York Indicates
That Much Sought for Animal
Is Owned by Granger Breeder
He Will Stay Here

Butter tests have been in progress
in North Yakima and Granger, under
the supervision of experts from the
state college at Pullman. the cows
tested being from the -Freis-
ian herds of William Todd & Sons OF
this city and H. C. Davis of Granger
These tests were eminently satisfac
tory and showed all the animals sub
mitted to it to be eligible to the ad-
vanced registry. The test has come
as Va regular thing now and all the
cows will be tested annually at least
once and perhaps more often. E. b
Marks of the Marks Holstein herd in
the Ahtanum proposes two weeks OF
testing in March, The test at the
Tod farm was conducted by l.. F.
Gargett. That at the Davis farm was
under the supervision of r. e
Waugh.
Violet Blossom. a heifer of the Todd
herd aged three years and two months
produced 21.17 pounds of butter III
seven days during the test. Ellen
Cornucopia, heifer aged three years
and three months produced 1915
pounds of butter in seven days and
Queen Maldeta, aged two years pro-
duced 1910 pounds Of butter in the
same week. Cascade Grace Johanna
a COW which was tested in December
was again tested this second trial be.
ing SO days after she had freshened
and she produced 20.43 pounds OF
butter
DO Better at End
Two three-year- heifers on the
Davis ranch each showed 16 pounds
to her credit after the test by Mr.
Waugh. These animals had been milk
ed for 30 and IS days respectively be
fore the test was started and each
was doing better at the end of the
test than at the start A three-year-
old which calved eight and a hall
months ago showed 1925 under the
test ana four-year-old produced
within fraction of IA pounds. Mr.
Davis was unprepared for the test
and his cows went into 1t under or
binary conditions. All improved dur
ing the week and one of the heifers
was yielding at the rate of 20 pounds
per week when the test closed. The
state official, however, was una Bile tc
remain any longer so the figures wee
compelled to stand.
Ask Bulls Price
Perhaps the greatest triumph, no u.
ever. of the Yakima county Holster
men is shown in news which comes
from New York. This is from tn,
famous Powell farm at Syracuse. New
York, where Anna DeKol Butter Girl
under test has produced 81 u pounds
Of butter in fourteen days and is
increasing her average as the test
continues. Mr.. Powell expects to sc
out with her next year and beat tho
worlds record of butter fat produc-
ton for the Holstein breed which
means for all breeds. This COW Is
the mother of Anna DeKol Lakeside
Model, the Holstein bull which hea Is
the Davis herd at Granger, and 1t will
be seen readily that every producine
record of his near female relatives
increases his value. Already the New
York people have been asking his
price but he is not for sale as Mr.
Davis says he is too good an animal
to be lost to this valley. Considering
that the animal Is worth something
over $4,000 dollars, the keeping OF HIM
here when the east wants him is
nothing short of local patriotism