The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1920-08-26
LEADING
AS A DAIRY STATE
RECORD OF ENTIRE SOUTH is
SMASHED BY TENNESSEE COW
This Cow Produced 1881 Pounds of
Milk and 411.61 Pounds of Fat in
One Year-Hamblen County Farm
ers Experimenting in Sheep Breed
ing-State POultrymen ReOrganize
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Tennessee is fast becoming one of
the leading dairy States of the coun-
try. This is demonstrated on most
every hand of late. So far this year
two records for production have been
broken and one record for the entire
South smashed by Tennessee Jerseys.
You'll Do, Alice Jersey COW owned
by DR.. r. E. Fort, of Nashville, is the
latest record smasher. This COW has
just broken the junior three-year-
old record for Tennessee.
She produced 1881 pounds of
milk and 411.61 pounds Of fat with an
average Of sos per cent. fat in 365
days at the age of three years and
one month. The record for this age
was formerly held by My Fontaine's
Beauty 252258, owned by Mrs. H. H.
Galbraith, Island Home Farm, Knox
vile. This cow had record of
7,561.5 pounds of milk and 407 pounds
of fat at the age Of three years and
three months.
The highest record for You'll Do,
Alice. was during the month Of May,
1919, the fourth month on test, when
she produced 913.5 pounds Of milk
testing 4.51 per cent, which amounts
to 41.2 pounds of fat. The richness
Of her milk ranged from 3.91 per
cent. to 6.81 per cent, with an aver
age of sos per cent. She is daugh-
ter of You'll Do Sultan 1922, dam
Of Alfriston Petition II 296998, she
being the daughter of Eminents 14th
and of Alfriston Petition 211630, a
tested daughter of Aifriston Lad
P 3567HC.
In Speaking of You'll Do Alice, DR..
Fort said: For more than a year !
have predicted that this COW. when
mature would produce 10000 pounds
Of milk. Considering her handicap,
consider her performance remark
able. She was not fed as a calf and
was very much undersize and calved
at 16 months. During her test she
was, because of the ever present la
Dor conditions, MIXED only twice
day and by four different men. She
was with the herd during the summer
and walked a mile to and from the
pasture each day. In spite of this,
April and MAY were her greatest
months.
81 am justified in believing that
under good test conditions she would
have produced at least 100 pounds
more fat. Aside from the pasture,
she was fed ensilage, alfalfa hay and
d grain mixture of crushed oats. bar
ley, cotton seed meal, or of crushed
oats, corncob meal and cotton seed
meal, the amount ranging from eight
to IA pounds day, the amount OF
cotton seed meal from one to two
pounds"
DR.. Fort has recently purchased
an imported son of Oxford You'll Do,
out Of an Eminent COW to cross on his
inc bred Majesty cows. DR.. Fort
was one of the first breeders to get
IN early start in Register Of Merit
Testing and has been successful IN
qualifying several cows for certifi-
.ates. Eight of the cows in his herd
ire now on test.
This herd combines splendid type
With high production, and is well
Inown in the show rings of the
country.
The establishing of such records
IS above and those made by other
cows of late are due
argely to the COW testing work de-
leloped in this State by G. A. Hutton,
larry specialist of the Division Of
University Of Tennessee,
md the work Of the dairy department
# the College of Agriculture.