Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-01-25
E. ]. OLDER, Clerk.
An Open Letter to HoIstein Breeders

We wish to announce to all of the
Holstein-F reesian breeders that we
can reach, that we have recently pur-
chased from Aitken Bros, Waukesha,
Wis. new herd sire. We have been
almost year selecting this bull. By
that we mean we have been carrying
on correspondence with and visiting
some Of the larger Holstein farms.
+ We found it a pretty hard proposition
to go out and find bull that suited
I us both as to breeding and individual
ity and still be able to meet the price.
( 1t is rather startling to find how
much the old breeders of Holstein OBJ
tain for bulls Of this class. However,
we knew what kind OF an animal we
must have, and made up our minds
that the price should not stop US.
This bull is now about I3 months
old and weighs 1900 pounds. His
body is wonderful, extremely long,
with a big roomy heart girth and a
top line that is almost perfect. An
other feature which seems to be pop
ular in this community is that he is
mostly white. So much for the in
dividual.
As to his breeding, we believe that
his pedigree is one of the very best
to be found in this county, and maybe
better than that. His sire is King
Bess Johanna Ormsby lwhose sire is a
1855 pound bull and out of the worlds
record 305 day I043 pound junior 4
year old, Bess Johanna Ormsby. and
whose dam made 4074 pounds Of but
ter in seven days from 667 pounds of
milk, and 1043 pounds of butter from
FL $50 pounds of milk in a year.
The sire's sire has five 30-pound
daughters. and is a son of Colantha
Johanna Champion, grandson Of the
we'll known Homestead Jr. DeKol. Our
bull traces three times to Sir Ormsby
Hengerveld DeKol and three times to
Pietertje Maid Ormsby, the first 35
pound COW and dam of old Sir Pet
critic Ormsby Mercedes. He is a
grandson of the last mentioned bull
who is known as the $100,000.00 bull.
He is a great-grandson of that great
est of all foundation dairy cows, some
times called the mother of the breed,
Spring Brook Bess Burke End, whose
records are as follows. One year.
1890 pounds butter and $4,000 pounds
of milk, 4 seven day records above so
pounds; 3 above 35 pounds and one
above IS pounds. She has two Al.
r. o. daughters and one A. r. o. son.
This Is closer to Spring Brook Bess
Burke End than we ever expected to
get. The bulls dam is a q pound
cow with about 800 pounds in a year,
Her grand sire is Sir Ormsby Hem.
geryeld DeKol, the sire Of Pietertje
Maid Ormsby. and remember that
these two animals appear twice on
the other side Of the pedigree. The
dams dam is 10 pound three-year-
old daughter of q 80 pound COW. We
might add that the first heifer from
the same sire as our bull, to be tested
made more than 20 pounds as a jun
Tor two-year-old, and is now doing
great work on yearly test. This heifer
is full sister to our bull.
Now. If you are interested in Hol-
stems it would be well to study this
letter carefully for your own future
benefit. Inside of year we will be
placing some of the offspring of this
bull on the market, both male and
female. OF course by that time we
viii furnish you with a degeneration
pedigree.
In closing we wish to add that we
will start our first A. r. o. testing
this year.
FRED KELLICUT & SON,
RI, Westby. Wis.