The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-08

the great producers of the older and
well established dairy breeds.
'F'orty-fiXe Holstein- Friesians have
made yearly records of 10,185 to
2F,422 pounds of milk, testing 3.03fo
to 4.43Io butterfat; producing 3S5 to
99S pounds of butter fat. Colantha. w.
Johanna, heads the list with 81, 432
pounds of milk, (tWenty times her
own weight testing 3.64@o fat, yield
ing 99S pounds blItterfat. This great
production is equal, in measure, to
$3.50 gallons of milk, producing H.,
PAT pounds commercial (S0ao) butter
than 100 pounds of butter per month
''Thirty-three Jerseys have made
yearly authentic records of from Sol
to 952 pounds butterfat and from
10,128 to 1928 pounds of milk ia
coba Irene heads the list with 1928
pounds of milk (equal to zoos gal
lons) and 952- pounds of butterfat,
which is equal to-1. 191 pounds com
mercial (S0a6) butter; almost 100
pounds per month.
''Fifty-one Guernseys have made
yearly official records of 500 to 876
pounds of butterfat, and from 9,45
pounds to 1S.908 pounds of milk, test
ing from 4.15% to $3.50 butterfat. Dol
~ Dimple heads the list with 1s,sOs
pounds of milk and ST6 pounds of
butterfat. This is equal. in measure,
to 2,1S7 gallons of milk, producing
1895 pounds commercial 5000 but
Twenty Ayrshires have made Off
cial yearly records of 1875 to IS, 10
pounds of milk and from Al to $40
pounds of butterfat.
''NetherhaH Brownie TX, heads the
list with 1910 pounds of milk and 800
pounds of butterfat. This is equal in
measure, to 2,105 gallons of milk, pro-
ducing 1925 pounds of commercial
ESQ per cent? furthermore than s.
pounds Der month.
Good Cows Near Topeka.
mot more than four miles from
Topeka can be seen a cow that pro-
duced 101 pounds and 10 ounces of milk
almost u gallons) in one day, and an
other within three miles of Topeka that
produced S6 pounds of milk (exactly 10
are Holsteins. brought to Kansas by
the writer and sold at public sale. to
their present OWners-Chas.- Holston
and George P. Pugh.
AT the Kansas State Agricultural
college is a Holstefn COW, 10 years old.
the past year produced more than $500
worth of milk if sold at cents per
quart If the milk of Colaftha 4th's
Johanna, Dolly Dimple, NetherhalI
Brownie and Jacoba Irene had been
sold in Topeka at average retail price
&c per quartz the product of the four
COWS for one year would be 81, 056. So If
placed in pint milk bottles and stacked
lone upon the other, the column would
reach to height of more than eight
miles-higher than the highest noun
tain in the world"
Prof. G. s. FIine of the Kansas State
Agricultural college gave an address
on Building and Filling the Silo.''
.sThe Horses Foot Tonight
This evening DR.. c. W. McCampbel
of the Kansas State Agricultural coli
lege will speak on 1.-THE Horses Foot
in Representative hall. Draft Horses
in America" is the subject of an add
dress which will be given by Wayne
Dinsmore of Chicago, secretary of the
Percheron Society of America.
The program for Tuesday morning
and afternoon is as follows:
Morning. $50 o'clock Hog Cho1-
era and the Serum Treatment DR..
George Babb, Topeka, Kan; 1.-THE
Farmers Hog" Hon. G. W. Hervey,
Nebraska board of agriculture,
Omaha, Neb. Feeding Hogs for
Profit" Prof. p. N. Flint, K. S A. c.
Afternoon, ? O'Clock Breeders
Associations, - J. M. Rodgers, Secretary
Mitchell County Breeders associatio
Beloit, Kan; Failures in the Show
Ring" John r. Tomson, Dover, Kan;
Scientific Breeding" G. L. Carlson,
Norfolk, Neb.
Real Estate Men Enroll.
The reception and enrolment Of the
m EN- bers of the Kansas Association of