Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-02
STATE FAIR BUTTER CONTEST

The butter contest at the state fair
aroused interest among all dairymen
and admirers of dairy cows present,
as in the aged class it was a neck
and neck contest between a Jersey and
a Holstein, the latter winning out by
the small margin of OF of a pound
of butter for five days milkings. The
Jersey led until the last milking. ana
lost by an amount well within the
margin of error Aside from this. and
one other COW, the Holsteins took ev-
erything in sight in the butter con
test.
A notable thing about this, alSo was
the showing made by Aralia De Kol,
who came fourth among the aged cows
about Is months after calving. In this
one period of lactation she gave enough
for 1887 pounds of so per cent butter
and won the milking contest of the
previous year Her owners, A. w. Nor
ris & Sons, also took most of the other
prizes for butter production as well
as taking the lions share of awards
in the show ring. Altogether, they
went home with nearly $500 in prize
m oney from their herd.
The butter production for the five
days in the milking contest was:
Aged Class
Pounds
Cow. Owner. butter fat.
Sadie De Kol Acme. Morris Il
Wanda of yenadera, Guy r. Mil
Ter ................... 2.426
Wilhelmina Gerben De Kol, Nor
ri 4,
Aralia De Kol, Morris & Sons II 500
Three 10 Four Years
Leda Gerben Alcartra, Morris e
sons -. .ll-l9l
De Kol of Valley Mead End, Nor
RS & Sons ................... .1O7O7
Tilie Alcartra, Morris & Sons. 9.25l
Cows Under Three Years
Tuebie Pieterjie Carren Fidessa,
University of Nevada .... 9.692
De Kol of Valley Mead 3rd, Nor
ris Il Sons 1924
Lolita of Venadera, Guy H. Mil
Ter 9.123
Woodland Wilhelmina End, Nor
IT'S q sons ................... 7.40S
TO give these cows full credit, it
should be remembered that all were
given a decided setback by the travel
to the fair and the excitement from
the crowds, and at home they could
do much better Riverside Sadie De
Kol Burke, Morris & Sons best mixer,
was not entered. Stafford Mercedes
Aaggie Tuebie, the great COW of the
University that stood next to Riverside
Sadie in the aged Holstein class, was
entered. but calved so soon before
the contest started that she could not
compete.
1t is, however, worthy Of note that
Riverside Sadie, the greatest milker of
all, was grand champion Holstein cow,
and the senior champion Jersey, Wanda
of Venadera, was the best Jersey milk
er and graZed the record of the best
Holstein, showing that type and pro-
duction go together.
Creamery Exhibits
The butter scoring contest that is
usually held at the university farm
at Davis was held at the state fair
about fifty creameries contesting. Those
scoring 80 or better are given below
Several exhibits arrived too late for
the contest and were given compliment
tary scores ranging from 80 to 93h.
For export butter, the best entry,
considering package and quality Of
butter, came from J. V. Canham of
the Western Meat Company, San Fran
cisco, scoring SO. p. Petersen, McFar-
land Creamery, took second. late
entry by n. Petersen, Visalia Cooperat-
i've Creamery, was given a compliment
tary score Of 92k
The best display of dairy products
went to ]. v. Canham of the Wester,,
Meat Company.
peculiar condition existed in the
cheese contests, which works against
the California exhibitor and should be
remedied. This is that there were
four different kinds of cheese entered
all under one classification and com
peting. These are the genuine ched-
dar cheese (called eastern cheese in
retail trade), which is hardly made in
California; the stirred curd (called
California cheese at retaiD, which is
the usual kind made here; imitation
Swiss, and Jack cheese. The genuine
ch eddar is the finest cheese, which puts
the other at disadvantage. Owing
to the different natures Of the chees ii