The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1922-08-10
TOUR SHOWS VALUE
OF BETTER SIRES
Worth of Pure-Bred Males DEM
onstrated in Visit to Farms of
Whatcorn County

Finishing with 55 autos and
$50 dairymen and livestockmen
Of Whatcom county. the greatest
| livestock tour TO be conducted
in the West ended at the Milky
way farm, as the last auto left
| for home The Western Washing
/ ton Livestock Demonstration
Tour which started at Vancouver
Washington, July "a. came TO an
end in Whatcom county. Friday
evening, August 4.
The tour thru the county was
in charge of Harry B. Carroll Jr.,
as it visited the different farms
and herds during the day. Live
stockmen and dairymen cooperat-
1 ing with the Extension Service of
The State College of Washington,
made the trip possible, and DR.
s. B. Nelson. director and c. NJ.
Hubbard extension livestock spe-
cialist had charge of the northern
half, while Don G. Magruder. to-
gether with the county agents of
the different counties conducted
affairs in the southern half.
Leaving Bellingham. the cara
van proceeded to David McLeod's
Jersey farm where the first stop
was made. A gold medal COW was
seen in this herd which produced
5S3 pounds of butterfat. One of
the features was Wyetta, a COW
IT years old which made a re-
cord of 1910 pounds milk, 500
pounds butterfat and tested 5.03
when she was 161b years old.
Wyetta is q half sister to two of
the gold medal cows and grand
dam TO the herd sire.
The Van Horn poultry farm
was a demonstration in line
breeding for egg production for
the past ten years. A glance at
the average egg WELD of the flock
shows that in 1918 each bird av-
eraged 1S1 eggs, 1920 they av-
eraged 1861 and in 1921 they
had increased to 1921 Mr.. Van
Horn is an advocate of feeding
fish meal TO both young and old
chickens.
B. S. Hillier's poultry farm was
the center of attraction along the
road to the next stop. Mr.. and
Mrs Hitler showed what the
Shoup and Hollywood stock could
do when trapnested and culled.
King of HOLLYWOOD. heads the
flock and is boss over all. From
private records, Lady Jane laid
302 eggs in u months and 3G1
eggs in Is months, while Betty
laid SOC eggs in il months.
These two high producers We're
the result of trapnesting and cul-
ling go hens. Mr. Hitler uses
500 breeders and raises 1900
baby chicks besides selling eggs
commercially.
j. A. Porter's farm near Gus
ter was the next stop of the cara
van where the results of COW test
ing were demonstrated on a grade
herd of Jerseys. In one case
daughter increased "a pounds of
butterfat over her dam, while
another one increased her butter
fat production 80 pounds over
her dam. This herd has been
built from ST. Mawes breeding,
the herd sire being Pansy's St.
Mawes. coming in the generation
from the well known Poppy's St.
Mawes.
The first herd Of Ayrshires to
he seen on the entire trip was
shown by William Lauckhart At
one time the herd had 80 head
of females. but after selling them
/ h n dnufHAA 70 rAhuffl
has fine lot of young stock.
One Of the COWS in the present
herd has a four year record of
655 pounds butterfat and 10000
pounds of milk.
A picnic lunch was served at
noon a Berthusen's Grove, where
the entire party rested. Ice cream
made by the Whatcom County
/ Dairymen's association was dom
ated by the Whatcom County
Farm Bureau After lunch the
pilgrims started to the Koole
! pace.
1T takes four hours a month
I TO take care OF the herd record
book, and it does not pay to be
without one" said Louis Zweeg-
man. as he told of the records
made by the grade Guernseys
owned by Leonard Koole of Lyn-
den. Louis showed from actual
( records that it cost 161a cents
to produce a pound of butterfat
from a cow yielding All pounds
OF fat, while II cost 1S1a cents
to produce a pound from a COW
giving 246 pounds of fat per year
The records on the Koole herd
showed an increase of one per
cent in test during the past four
years making an average test of
500 percent in 1918 and 4.04 in
1921. This was brought about
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