Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-08-03
EdgewOOd Farm h0lsteins
Make Good Records.

A statement has been received
from Mr.. George K. Logan,
owner of the Edgewood Farm
reporting the splendid records
recently made by some of the
black and white inhabitants of
that farm. These records should
be most gratifying to the Hols-
teins admirers of this section
because the three cows reported
to have met the req uirements of
the A. R. O. test, which was
conducted by Mr.. D. V. Wiley
of the Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute were bred in Shenandoah
County. Two of the cows are
pure-bred Holstein and the other
is a grade Holstein, the grade
Holstein and the pure-bred Hol-
stein heifer are average size
cows but the other cow is rather
small for a Holstein, weighing
only about one thousand and
fifty pounds.rThe records which
are given below are very remark
able when the fact that the cows
were not prepared for the test is
made and gave these cows no
extra attention until just few
days prior to the beginning of
the test.
The list is headed by Princess
Jewel Tirania End. 242326 with
the record of 1857 pounds of
butter-tat, 19.45 pounds of 80 per
cent BUTTER, from sol pounds
of milk in seven consecutive
days. Her average daily milk
production for the seven days
was 71.6 pounds and on her best
day, which was one of the last
three days of the test, she pro-
duced 1874 pounds, and at the
compile ton of the test her yield
was increasing. This cow in
thirty consecutive days, Begin
ming with January 10th and end
ing February 9th produced 1850
pounds of milk.
The grain mixture fed all
three cows was of the same COM
position the only difference being
that the heifer received two
pounds less per day than the
other cows. Jewel received a
daily ration composed of 10
pounds of grain, 40 pounds of
corn silage, "a pounds of man.
giles, s pounds of dried beet pulp,
and as much alfalfa hay as she
would clean up in reasonable
length of time. The grain mix
ture and all the roughage ex-
cept the hay was fed in four
equal feeds, The cows were milk.
ed four times in every twenty
four hours and hay was fed twice
a day, at E A. M. and at 6 P. M.
the hay that was not eaten by
1890 A. M. and 1920 P. M. was
removed.
The second cow on the list is
graded Holstein cow and was
bred by Judge F. S. Tavenner.
Edgewood's Black Lady, the
grade cow follows Jewel with a
record of 14.325 pounds of butter
fat, 1871 pounds of 80 per cent
butter from 414.6 pounds of milk.
This cows average daily milk
production for the seven con-
secutlve days was 59.2 pounds
AMI produced on her best day
|64.7 pounds.
The last on the list but by no
means the least is Alice Neither
land Korndyke 238353. Alice is
very promising heifer and in
all probability will develop into
a great COW. AS stated before
this heifer received grain mix
,ture OF the sa me composition as
the other cows but she was fed
II pounds per day instead of 16
For roughage Alice received the
same as the other cows except
corn silage Of which she was fed
81 pounds per day. This three
year old heifer has made the
splendid record of 11.422 pounds
of butter-fat, 1928 pounds OF
butter from 379.9 pounds of milk.
Her average daily milk produc-
tion for the seven consecutive
days was 54.3 pounds and pro.
duced on her best day Sc 7
pounds.
| 1t might be we'll to say some.
thing about the breeding of the
1.-TWO pure-bred Holstein cows