The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-08-04
UNIVERSITY COWS
BREAK RECORDS
SKATER FORMER CORDS
ELEVEN TIMES IN TEN
MONTHS

Eleven state records for Holstein
COWS have just recently been broken
by animals kept at the University of
Idaho, according to data compiled by
professor f. w. Atkeson of the dairy
department of the college of agricuI-
tufe. His report reads:
The University of Idaho cows have
broken eleven state records for the
Holsteln breed in the past ten months
This seems very creditable showing
when we consider that the herd only
contains forty-four females, with lust
eighteen of that number of milking
age
The latest COWS to break state rec
ords are Idaho Lily Butter Girl De-
kol, No. 338832, and her daughter
Idaho Segis Lily, No. 420S69 The of
ficial figures of the Ho1stein-F -F'riesian
association gives Idaho Butter Girl
DeKol credit of 142191 pounds of
milk and 507.47 pounds of butterfat,
equivalent to 633 pounds of butter in
ten months time, beginning test at
years, months and IS days of age.
she displaces Zeldenrust Kirby I'd,
No. 293053, the former leader in this
class, owned by the Intermountain
Institute, Weiser, Idaho, by surplus
of 1887 pounds of milk and 1882
pounds of butterfat.
Idaho Lily Butter Girl DeKol was
bred and developed on the university
farm and made this record under very
ordinary conditions. During her rec
cd, she was never milked more than
three times daily, was never kept in
box stall and was on a feeding ex-
pertinent for six months during which
time, she was fed according to the
experiment and not according to her
nv xnt1< IL l.
presenting us with heifer calf and
his milked up to ninety pounds the
first few days and is expected to go
higher She will be given on oppor-
tunity to prove her true capacity this
year.
Idaho Segis Lily, No. 420S69 is a
daughter of the above cow and has
recently completed a record of 1862
pounds of milk and 60S.59 pounds of
equivalent to 76O pounds of
butter in one year, beginning test at
g years, / month and l day of age.
The former state record junior, three
year, old, was Eva DeKo1 Maid Piet-
ertje, No. 412173, owned by F. ".
Wendell, Idaho The latter
COW held the record with 153421
pounds of milk and 527.05 pounds of
butterfot.
INoC only uld IQanO Seg1S LILY break
the record by over 1000 pounds of
milk but she did it with first calf as
she freshened for the first time as
three year old. She was never MIXED
four times a day and stood in the
stanchion on the same feeding ex-
pertinent as her mother. She is not
an extremely large mixer but very
persistent as shown by the fact that
her high day was 6S.3 pounds of milk
and she finished her last day of the
year milking over fifty pounds. She
is due to freshen in September and
will certainly be given every oppor-
tunity to make as large a record as
she is capable of making.
'These two COWS are an example
Of what a good sire can do as the
laughter made 127 pounds more but
ter with first calf than did the
mother os' mature COW. The sire of
Idaho Segis Lily was King Segis
Matador Walker, No. 172052, who has
six or seven daughters in the univers-
ty herd on test with second calves
hat will average close to 900 pounds
If butter