The Holly chieftain., 1919-01-30
As Measured in Effs, Or.
anfes aud Oysters.
1u.LY ALcARfRA, PuREBRED
H0LSfEM. BREAKS RECORD
During Six-Yssr Rigid Test She Pro
duesd 16e1Is Pounds Of Milk or
$40 pounds Of Butter Yat-Her
Last Year Was Best.


the nations Of the earth. From the
standpoint OF food production.
therefore, the record recently com.
pleted by the purebred Holstein
COW. Tilly Alcartra, No. l23459, is of
particular interest to every resident
of Pr0wers county, whether classed
as consumers. dependent upon agri-
culture as the original source of
food supply. or as producers aiding
in the task of feeding a hungry
world.
Tilly has been "in test. as the
breeders express it, every year since
she first freshened as twO-year-Old
"a total of six years. This means
that every milking during those six
years has been carefully weighed,
tested for butterfat content, and Of
ficially recorded by the Holstein-
Friesian association of America, rep
resentatives OF the state college of
agriculture of California, in which
state Tilly resides, being present to
superintend the actual Weighing
and testing. In this way the fig
ures are rendered absolutely above
the shadow of doubt. According
to these official figures Tilly has
produced during this six-year per
fod the stupendOus total of 1885,
1910 pounds of milk and 6,14O.12
pounds of butter, her final year,
Just completed, being the best one
of the six, with 33,424.S pounds of
milk and 1928 pounds of butter.
The HOlstein Friesian World is au-
th0rity for the statement that not
only is this six-year total by far the
largest record for either milk or
butter ever made by dairy COW of
any breed, but that the oneyear
record mentioned, is likewise a
worlds record for milk production
by q margin of over 1900 pounds
This HOlstein newspaper further
states that her figures surpass all
those of the Jersey cow distance
champion, Sophia 18th, of Hood
Farm, by over 600 pounds of butter
and about 5000 pounds more than
twice as much milk. This gives
some idea OF the magnitude of her
achievements.
just consider what these prOduc-
GlOIl XIX uI Go u1CdI. 11lCy 1uCaIl G1l6G
during the past year Tilly Alcartra
has averaged 81 pOunds-practical
ly As quarts-Of milk for every day
of the year. Her average weekly
yield OF butter was over Is pounds
Taking her records each year from
two years old upwards, she has av-
eraged to produce practically 36
quarts of milk every day Of the
year for the six years At least sew
en- average cows would be required
to produce an equal amount. Think
of the economy in labor and feed in
keeping one pure-bred Holstein
that will do the work Of seven av-
erage cows, year after year. During
the past year Tilly excelled nine av-
erage cows in total production,
while the net profit on her years
work was greater than the major
ity of the entire herds can show.
According to careful figures furnish.
ed by her. owners, Tilly's feed bill, at
| current prices totals between $275
and $3.50. her daily grain ration com.
prising only 16 pounds of common
feeds, ground barley, ground oats,
wheat bran, SOya bean meal. cot
: ton seed meal, and linseed oil meal,
all of them feeds that are available
! for the average dairyman. This is
a smaller amount of concentrated
feed than the champions of the Jer-
sey and Guernsey breeds consumed,
and the Holstein exceeded their
milk production by over 100 per
cent and 20 per cent respectively.
During nine months of her year she
ran at pasture about four hours q
day. On the other side of the ledg-
er, we find credit of $500, the ac-
tual price at which her milk was
sold-$2.75 per hundred, which is
less than the average price in most
localities. At Is cents quart it
+! would have brought practically ST..
! 500. II it had been made into but
ter, the value OF that commodity,
with the skim milk, would have fig.
ured right around $500. In addition
she has produced live. healthy
calf each year, and on account of
her unequalled work, breeders
7 would be willing to pay almost any
prices the owners might place upon
them, the total for the six running
into q good many thousand dollars.
So much for the dollars and cents
side of the question. Let us get
back to the food question again.
Basing our computations on United
States government figures as to the
food value Of various articles of di.
OF, stated In calories, as a common