Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-11-14
.M|LCH COWS TEACHING
LESSONS TO FARMERS
VirSinians learning Real Value OF
Sure-Enough Buttcr-Niakers.
Palace Cars for Mixers.
THAT DIG COLLEGE ON WHEELS
Kind of Cattle 1t Pays to Keep, and
the Kind Not Needed in the BUSH
ness-Iesson In Dairying Being
Given

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Given.
An Associated Press telegram that
come from minneapolis. Minn., yester-
day read as follows: THE worlds
championship for the production of
butter fat by single COW In n year
has been won by Duchess Skylark
Ormsby, q iiolstcin-Friesia according
to an announcement made here to-day.
The COW produced a total Of l.205.09l
pounds of butter fat: gave 27.iGl.7
pounds of milk in the year: gave 55S.1
pounds Of milk and BASE pounds of
butter in seven days; maintained an
average butter "a, record OF 4.32 per
cent. and remained In perfec, health
throughout the test period
The tests were made on Il farm near
Minneapolis, under the supervision of
fourteen experts from the Wisconsin
and Minnesota eNperim entail stations
But WE ARE LEARNING
~ OLD VIRGINIA
Truly the Duchess Skylark ormsby
is some mixer. and 1t must he admitted
that her equal is not 10 he found at
this time in Virginia. but Southern
people are getting educated up to til.
value OF the best of dairy animals and
there are many mixers in various
parts OF Virginia or which the people
arc proud
Attached to the Better Farming and
Demonstration Special" which is now
being run over the lines of the Norfolk
and Western Railway are two Arms
palace horse cars. in which a great live
stock exhibit is being made from place
TO place One OF these ears !s devoted
To frst-clasS mich cows, and CORE
spondcnt tells OF this part of the dem
onstration. lie writes: Travelling
with the demonstration train. and do
Ing her share in spreading the doctrine
of better live stock on Virginia farms
is Dioue de- Ko!
Dionc de kol is a Zig. mild-cyed iiol-
stein COW, and when she IL led forth
from her stall in one OF the Arms pal
ace cars, she doesn't have to say one
word. That isn't her role. Dionc just
stands upon the platform car. and In
her own well-manncrcd way shows the
interested farmer what good dairy
COW looks like.
and Dione plays her par. without
affeciation, though she has back OF her
tcn-ycar record of fine service. Day
after day She has hiled up the milk
pail and has made in one year the re-
markable record OF 1894 pounds of
milk or more than 2,092 gallons. The
butter represented by this amount OF
milk is 800 pounds.
OTHERS DOING GOOD
MISSIONARY WORK
While Dione stands patiently on the
platform car. one OF the lecturers from
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Will
point out her good qualities. He will
show the farmers her triangular shane.
narrow ut the shoulders and wide at
the iianlts. as good milk cows should
be. He Will point out her straight back
line and her ample stomach capacity
to care for the food which n good dairy
COW must turn into milk.
Like Dione de kol, Y. p. l. Aleetra is
another COW that is doing missionary
work In Virginia. Alectra also comes
from the Blackshurg Agricultural Col
iege. She is Jersey, with milk
record for one year Of S.I0e pounds OF
milk or 342 gallons. Her butter rec
ord is io91 pounds.
The next COW in the group is a
Guernsey, Lucy OF Elk View. and the
lecturers tell their hearers that II was
the Guernsey COW that first introduced
the use Of coloring matter In butter.
The rich yellow quality Of the butter
from the cream Of tho Guernsey is one
OF the valued qualities of that breed.
Lucy of Elk View has a record of g.
039 pounds OF milk or SS7 gallons In
one year.
Lady Rose is the fourth COW on tho
train, and she happens to he a pretty
iitNie JcTAcS lfut. unfortunately, Snc
Is not quite the type OF the best dairy
cows and so she is shown as the kind
OF COW which the dairyman should
avoid Her record is noticeably
smaller than any one of the Others
and her best yearly yield was 3,34a
pounds Of milk or a01 gallons.
SOME OTHER FEATURES
A GOOD SHOW
But even nj that she was above the
record of the average dairy COW In
Virginia, whose yearly yield is 5000
pounds, or 34S gallons, of milk. Com
pairing this 5000 pounds with the IL
90 pounds OF Dlone de Kol, II can
readily he seen just how much imprcs-
sion this demonstration makes with
money end of his livestock
But the dairy cows are not alone in
their missionary work, for aboard the
train IL n big black Aberdeen Angus
COW. This lady bovine belongs TO tn,
beef type. and the lecturer points out
her rectangular body as the ideal
shape for beef cattle. "A roam short
horn. OF the type very largely raised
In Southwest Virginia. also belongs to
the beef class, ana is shown as n good
example Of this breed, while n white
faced Hereford is the third COW in the
group. and is used as an example of tho
kind that can do well on short pas
turagc. and produce marketable beef
in shorter time than any other.
There are other livestock specimens
in this exhibit, such a Sstecrs, sheep,
hogs and white Percheron brood
mare. but this article is to treat only
Of the dairy cows.