Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1914-12-29
SOUTH PARIS, MAINE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 49, 1914.
Tho 3o,ooo-lb. Dairy Cow.

4 tu0 5O,OOOsIOs D0lIy WV
For some years past 1t has been thu
ambition of many breeders Of Holstein
Friesian cattle to be the first to develop
q COW that would produce $4,000 pounds
OF milk in one year. Several breeders
have almost reached the goal, only tC
fall little short at the finish, but II ha,
remained for . California breeder tc
reach the coveted position drst.
On the evening Of November Is, 1914,
Tilly Alcartra, COW in the registered
Holstein- -Friesiau herd owned by A. W.
Morris & Sons, California, finished a
year of semi-oficial test work with a
production OF 80, 1875 pounds of milk
containing 951.S pounds OF butterfat,
and thereby becomes the worlds great.
est milk COW.
II was less than three years ago that
the Morris herd astonished the dairy
world when Aralia DeKol, twelve-year.
old COW, became the first COW in the
world to produce over $4,000 pounds of
milk in one year, her record for the year
being 2S, 900 pounds. Not long after
ward another COW In the same herd,
Riverside Sadie DeKol Burke, exceeded
Aralia's record and produced in one year
rs, ,S26 4 pounds Of milk. Sadie held the
record up to the time that the Field COW,
Creamelie Vale, made the wonderful rec
ord of 29, 1914 pounds of milk in ono
year. And now the honOrs are brought
back to the Morris herd again through
the work of Tilly Alcartra, that is to-day
the only $4,000 pound milk COW that has
been developed so far.
As an individual Tilly Is quite q nice
type Of Holstein, but she would surprise
many of the wise ones who might
expect from her production record that
she is large COW carrying an immense
udder. As matter Of fact, she is not
particularly large COW, and while she
carries we'll formed udder it is notice
ably small for even medium produc-
ton. Every student of individuality
who has looked at Tilly has been at q
loss to discover where she stores her
enormous milk production. She has q
wonderfully soft and pliable hide, and is
in tho pink of condition after her
great work. In fact she finished her
year giving over 90 pounds of milk per
day, and she has been carrying calf for
five months.
We read great deal about the highly
sensitive nature of the dairy COW, all of
which is true 10 most cases, but Tilly Al
cartra is an exception to the rule. If
there is anything that will worry her she
has not vet discovered it. She makes
friends with every person who visits her
STALL, be it man, woman or child.
Changes of mixers do not affect her,
and her bearing is altogether independ-
emily aristocratic.
In producing q worlds record for milk
Tilly Alcartrs consumed a
generous quantity of we'll apportioned
feeds, although she is not as heavy a
feeder as might be supposed from her
great production. She showed an es-
pecial fondness for stock beets, and
these with dried beet pulp and corn sill
age contributed the succulence to her
ration. Her grain ration was mixture
Of one part barley, one part oats, and
one part bran. During the year an ac-
curate account was kept OF her feed and
it's cost, showing a total cost Of feed OF
Sl49 OF.
Figuring Tilly Alcartra simply as
profit maker from milk production,
makes her very valuable COW. Reduc
ed to quarts her years production
equals IA, 1874, and figuring the value OF
the milk at four cents per quart gives
her a credit of s566 SO for the year, or q
margin Of S4l749 over her feed.