The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-10
WORLDS RECORD
 PRICE PAID FOR {,
 HOLSTEIN CALF

months-old son of May Echo Sylvia, to 100 days, was sold at the Holstein- Friesian sale, at Milwaukee, Wis, June 6, T.. and 8, for the astonishing and hitherto unhead-of price of S106,0 6,000. The purchaser was B. A. Stuart. president of the far-famed Carnatfon Stock Farms, located at Seattle, Wash, and Oconomowoc, Wis. The breeder and seller of the calf was Arthur c. Hardy, Canadian law yer, proprietor of Avondale Farm, Blockville, Ont, a member of both the Canadian and American Holstein- Friesian associations, and a Holstein breeder of high repute. The price paid by MT. Stuart is far and away the largest sum ever paid for a dairy animal, either at public or private sale.
 Carnation King Sylvia was rechris- tened by Mr. Stuart, the former name of the calf being Champion Sylvia Johanna: his registered number is 231405. The sire of this young record breaker" is Echo Sylvia Johanna 2030S4. whose dam and sire's dam have a 7-day average of 3S.18 lbs. butter and 7S6.90 lbs. milk, A.R.O. (Advanced Registry Of1ciaD, while for 30 days the average is 159 lbs butter and 318S lbs. milk. His own dam is a twice 37-1b. COW, with three success sive records that average over 35 lbs. butter for each 7-day official test. She also has g. daughter that has made over 36 lbs. butter in a week, at years of age. May Echo Sylvia, the dam of Carnation King Sylvia, is a wonderfully consistent producer. At l 4 years of age she made a 7-day rec ord of 3904 lbs. butter T59 lbs. milk); at 6 years, 36.33 lbs. butter in days; and at years, 37.60 lbs. butter from 862.20 lbs milk. Her greatest achieve ment, however, was at ' years of age, when she produced in official test, 1,0O5.8O lbs. milk in days (41 lbs. but teD. For one single day her milk production amounted to 152.10 lbs milk and in 20 days she produced 4.196 lbs, while in 100 consecutive days this wonderful machine" went over the top with a production of 12, 898SO lbs. milk, practically three times the quantity given by the aver l age dairy COW during a full year. | To those who are inclined to be sceptica1 as to the wisdom of spend- | ing so much money on a young dairy bull, 1t may be said that the dairy | ing industry of the country and the world at large is bound to derive 1 considerable impetus from this trans action. Never in the history of the world has there been such demand for high-class dairy animals. More | milk and more butter are necessary for the building up of the future womanhood and manhood of the na- | ton, and 1t is mainly through the in- | telligent foresight of our leading Holstein breeders that the principal food supply of the world is being sustained. Increased production can be obtained only by careful and judi cious breeding, and in such bulls as | Carnation King Sylvia lie he"power wherewith to transmit the great milk producing qualities so much sought after by the leading dairy cattle i breeders of the day.
 | MT. Stuart, when questioned in ref erence to his purchase said: T mere | ly wanted to do my bit toward help ing to improve the dairy industry by the breeding of other Holstein COWS. Judging by the records of the ances- tors of this bull, believe have pur-
 chased the best dairy bull in the world"
 l Carnation Stock Farms own the largest herd of registered Holsteins in l the world. The farms are operated as model dairies and breeding farms l 4q Jatr
 ing milk to the Carnation Evaporated | Milk condensaries. The company,
 being interested In the distribution ot
 unsweetened canned milk, must have
 the best quality of fresh milk. Their aim Is to get the dairymen, not only
 to produce milk of good quality, but
 also to produce a. maximum quantity
 at a minimum cost. The only way
 to accomplish both purposes is to have
 good COWS with high-producing abil-
 ity.
 The story of the s100,0o0 calf
 would not be complete without refer
 ence to Arthur Hay, the 15-year- old
 Canadian lad, who had attended to
 the calf from birth to the time that it
 changed hands at Milwaukee.
 His attachment to his pet calf was
 forcibly illustrated when, on being
 deprived of the honor of exhibiting
 the animal in the sales ring, he was
 found shedding tears at the thought
 of losing his valuable charge The
 matter of being drawn to Sales Di-
 rector Movers attention a reconcilia- ton was promptly effected and Ar
 thurs tears gave way at once to
 happy smiles. This little story of the
 attachment shown by this boy to his
 charge clearly points to the fact that
 the boys now on the dairy farms
 throughout the country can be kept
 there, provided they are given the op-
 portunity of caring for something that . is worth while. It pays to give anil mals extraordinary attention, and-tho
 boy on the farm likes to know that
 he is trusted to make good on his job, What Arthur Hay accomplished in bringing Carnation King Sylvia to such a high state of perfection that g price of $106,0O0 was considered nonC ' too high for the calf, other boys car
 do. "Where there's will, there's a way"
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