The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-03-15
COUNTY FARM
COMES into
POSSESSION
fine CATTLE
NUCLEUS OF HERD OF HoLsTEINs
OF PRiZE-WINNING ANCESTRY
BROUGHT HERE FROM PUE-
3 BIO.

DetleF strain OF QalTy STOCK among tnS
ranchers of Fremont county the coun-
ty commissioners have purchased
from Hubert Work of the Woodcroft
farm at Pueblo. herd of five Hol-
stein cattle of the most iilustrious an
eestry for breeding purposes and
placed them on the county farm,
where they are under the care of r.
c. Stevens, the superintendent.
At the head of the herd is Wood
croft Pontiac Meta Aggie, No. 151,752.
a magnificent two-year-old bull. one
of the finest animals of the kind ever
bred in Colorado. His mother. Meta
Pontiac Aggie. No. 175.6Os. has a
butter record of 24.71 pounds in seven
days and during the same period pro-
duced 452 pounds OF milk. Several
cows of the family are credited with
butter ercord of between thirty and
forty pounds, within a period of seven
days.
The names Of the four COWS in the
herd, with their registration number
and their milk and butter records,
follow:
Sunhower Korndyke Maryke. No.
1886. produced in seven days when
one year old 535 pounds of milk.
and 21.0S1 pounds OF butter
Woodcroft Worlds Fair Pontiac. No.
222,272, produced in seven days when
two years of age 327.6 pounds Of milk
and 1858 pounds of butter
Orndyke Pride Korndyke. No. $780,
02S, produced in seven days when
two years and one month old 405.5
pounds of milk and 1927 pounds of
butter.
Aurora Shadeland End, whose reg
istered number we have forgotten
has a milk producing record in seven
days of 52s.2 pounds and a butter
record of 23.1e pounds within like
period.
These cattle come from the very
best milk and butter producing stocl
in the United States and members o
bons at all of the dairy shows il
Colorado in recent years. Lady Per
lection Korndyke, No. 1852. own
ed and developed by DIR. Hubert Worl
and bred by Ira s. Jarvis Of Hart
wick Seminary. New York, achieved
the honor of being the first dair.
COW in Colorado to produce as mucl
as forty pounds of butter in sever
days. Not only was Lady Perfec
ton Korndyke a great milk and but
ter producer. but she was for tw'
years the grand champion show GOV
of the state. Within a few days 0
the result of her milk and butte
test being made known another o
by producing 1862 pounds of butte
in seven days, SO that the herd o
Holsteins on the woodcroft farm con
taips the two most famous COWS IL
the state so far as dairy products ar,
concerned. DR.. Work has also the ad
ditional honor of having develope,
the first two COWS in Colorado u
produce forty pounds of butter an,
over each in one week.
The herd of Holstein cattle just es
tablished on the county farm is com
posed of splendid individuals ant
any one of them would be worthy O
a gold medal at the most exclusivel.
aristocratic cattle show In America
= All of its members are beautiful,
marked with parti-colored patches o
black and white; the distinctiv'
badge of respectability and goo,
breeding among Holsteins, and the.
are of gentle and contented disposi
tion. The herd was brot up from
Pueblo by Mr.. Stevens on Thursda,
Of last week and is being giyei
every attention to which II is en-
titled by reason of it's high illustriouI
lineage. Every member of the her
has a pedigree as long as the mora
law that runs back in collateral con
nection TO the establishment Of tn
family tree in Holland century O.
more ago.
The location of this splendid grouI
Of Holsteins on the county farm is de
signed to be primarily an oDJect les
son to the ranchers of the county Ii
the advantages to be derived from
such stock and to stimulate by ex
ample the raising OF more and bette
dairy cattle In this part Of the Arkan
sas valley. 1t is expected that IL
presence there will be an incentiv,
to the growth and development Of tn
dairy industry In this community. TO
which II Is peculiarly adapted. Thu
county farm herd Ii for breeding pur
v.rnaa and ramnhman should Avail