Graham guardian., 1912-05-10
A Holstein Cow Surprises the
Dairy World
From Pacific Dairy Review J

OF these identlfled with the business
never acknowledge queen; they
have simply kept within their snail
like shell of ignorance and doubt
and declared that they were from
Missouri and have to be shown that
dairy cow can produce over one
thousand pounds of butter in one
year.
But the world moves; kings.
queens, champions and the great IN
both the human and the brute king
dom are ever joining the army of
has beens" 10 make place for the
new conner and. achievements among
dairy cows is no exception to the
universal law of progress. During
the past ten or twenty years interest
among progressive dairymen and
observers of dairy progress has been
centered in the plan that originated
among American breeders to create
performance records for cows of the
various breeds. Not only have
breeders We'd with each other with
almost sportsmen.like enthusiasm to
break records, but the desire to
create records that must attract
attention, both as a measure of the
producing capacity Of the cow and
the skill of the breeder, is becoming
more and more the standard on
which dairy cattle breeding rests.
1t is an age in which the ribbon
covered winnefof the show ring is
soon forgotten, but not so with the
COW that.has record to her credit
for phenomenal performance; she
may lose her place in the race, but
she holes strong place in dairy
history.
AS result of this interest in rec
ord-making, one COW after another
has had to step aside for new one
that came along with a higher mark.
1t is eight years ago that dairymen,
who keep posted on what is going on
in the way of record-making, had
the satisfaction 1--WE won't refer to
surprises again) of learning that a
COW, Colantha 4th's Johanna, ac-
complished the unheard of feat of
producing l247 pounds of butter in
one year, estimated on the Holstein
! Friesian Association standard of 80
per cent fat in butter. 1t was so
far ahead of any performance that
it attracted widespread attention
and Colantha became the acknowl-
edged champion COW of the world
and her owner and breeder Mr.. w.
j. Gillett of Wisconsin, not only
ranked at the head of the breeding
fraternity, but he likewise expert
enced harvest of sheckels, so great
was the demand for her offspring.
During the years since Colantha
made her championship record many
cows have been in the race, and
every means known to the skillful
feeder and expert caretaker has
been employed to exceed her record
only to fall short of it by the time
the year came ito a close, so that
back of Colantha is long string of
great producers the like of which no
other dairy country in the world can
boast of.
Finally cow came along that
turned the trick and that honor
belongs to Pontiac Clothilde DeKol
I'd, bred and owned by the noted
Holstein firm of Stevens Brothers,
at Liverpool, New York. Note the
combination of words that go to
make up her name. They repre-
sent three great families of the
breed, the Pontiacs, Clothildes and
the greatest of the old Holsteins--
DeKol I'd. Well might we expect
great things of such a combination
of blood lines.
She had her first calf as a two
year-old and has been working for
records pretty much ever since.
She freshened for the last time No
ivember 20 1910. In seven days she
produced 646.l lbs. milk, 1921 lbs
butter; in thirty days 1858 lbs. milk,
las .29 lbs. butter, and in 365 days,
25, ,31S lbs. milk, 1271.6 lbs. butter.
She was sired by Pontiac Korndyke,
who was born at Brookside and her
dam was sired by Hengerveld De
Kol, who was bred at Brookside,
and her dam and granddam have
both been members Of Brookside
herd, this being the name under
which the noted Stevens herd is
known throughout the country.
Pontiac Clothilde DeKol I'd sus-
tains the reputation of her ancestors,
and particularly emphasizes the
value of the Pontiac strain, now the
most popular of the breed.
THE FEEDING
In reference to her feeding when
she made her record the Stevens
Brothers advise us that her grain
ration during the early part of her
test was made up of a mixture as
follows:
81 lbs. bran, "a lbs. distiller's
grains, Sd lbs. hominy meal, 81 lbs.
gluten. 50 lbs. oil meal.
we commenced with Slbs. of
this mixture ner daY fnur daYS after