The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1921-03-23

of more than quarter of million
people! NJ
lilly Alcartra. while en- route from
Seattle to her home att Woodland.
California, was guest OF honor at
tho Hotel Benson, and was officially
welcomed by the mayor Of the city OF
Portland, Oregon.
Tilly, be it understood, is a world
hampton. She is the only COW in
the world that-so far as known
has produced over thirty-three thou
sand pounds Of milk in one year.
Photographers from all Of the lead
ing Portland dailies were on hand to
take Tilly's picture as she ate her
lunch Of beet pulp and ground bar
ley. Above the click Of the silver
ware could be heard the click OF the
moving-pictu man as he filmed
Mayor George~Baker milking the un-
crowned queen of the bovine world.
1t was Tilly's red-letter day. Mount
ed on a decorated lorry. she had
paraded the streets, preceded by the
Washington High School band, and
then had been escorted in state to
the crystal dining-room of the Hotel
Benson, where she received an en-
thusiastic reception.
But Tilly is growing accustomed
to this kind of thing. She stopped
off at Portland, also, for brief visit
with the Portland Advertising Club.
While her owner described her pedi-
gree and past performances, and
noted breeders paid tributes to her
merits, Tilly devoted her entire at
tentiou 10 her lunch, One of her
attendants filed to the brim a huge
tin pail with her milk, which in
charge of dainty maid, was served
to the guests; and when the flow. Of
milk and eratory had ceased, Q
crown of flowers was put about Til
1y's horns.
That evening it was my good for
tune to spend an hour or so with A.
w. Morris, her owner. and his son.
Frank. Eyes, I am proud of Tilly,'
said Mr.. Morris, proud that it has
been my good fortune to be the own
-er of the world champion. Some time
ago / received an offer of twenty-five
thousand dollars for her, but Of
course l refused it.
"Tilly, I might say, is the climax
of our success as cattle raisers.
got into the business of cattle raising
when. as young manu- went West
from Pennsylvania. That was not so
very long ago, as time goes, and yet
I remember that my wife. and I had
to make bed out of shavings and
ticking on the emigrant train we
travelled in. l secured job on
stock ranch. had to plow most or
the time; but before going to work l
had to milk fourteen cows; so Tilly,
you see, is not the only cow / have
MIXED, by any means.
"The story of how we happened to
get hold of lilly is rather an I'M
usual one:
Frank and I went out to the Nc
Kay Brothers place, near Waterloo,
Iowa. Every stockman knows OF
these two brothers. Their herd OF
Holsteins is famous. fwanted to
buy yearling, but Mr.. Mckay shook
his head and said, No. we have none
for sale.' bought some two-year-
olds.
Finally I said, Won't you sell me
at least one yearling?' He pointed
to the field and said, There is a
yearling you can have for three hun
dred dollars
Frank and l went out to look at
her. We looked at the other year.
lings in the field, and I said to Frank
If / had my choice of all of them, 1
would have picked this one. l Won
der why he offers us the best one of
the bunch for this price!' We lost
no time in paying him the three hun
dred dollars.
"When Tiily was six years old, in
the seven-day test she produced five
hundred and ninety-seven pounds of
milk. which means more than twen-
ty-nine pounds of butter. We sold
her first calf for five hundred dollars.
To-day you couldn't buy it back for
twenty-five thousand dollars.
mot long ago we sold one of TIL
1y's daughters for $1,000. Tilly has
had seven calves. Six of them are
still living. We have on our place
at Woodland three of them. We can
get $4,000 for one, but do not care
to sell him.
y.A