River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-06-19
Jersey Breeders Visit
Gopher Stock Farms
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is one of the herd. Other animals in
the herd are the Senior sire, Crocus
Royal Majesty; the Junior herd sire,
a son Of Masterman of Oakland, out
of daughter of Golden Ferns Noble.
The two cows, Rhinestone Elsie and
Golden Love, have completed an Off
cial record and are gold medal cows.
Third stop was at the Worrel
Clarkson farm near Withrow, Mimi !,
where the herd consisted of 80 cows.
The Senior herd sire is a son of
Ferns Plymouth Noble, out of
daughter of Jersey Volunteer. In
this herd is daughter of Fountaine
You'll Do, Senior and Grand Cham
pion of the Minnesota State Fair,
1923. This herd averaged 800 pounds
of butter-fat in the Cow Testing as
ISOLATION. Here certified milk was
produced and sold for babies milk
at 25 cents a quart and cream at
$1.40. An up-to-date creamery was
under construction in which is being
placed an up-to-date cooling system
SO that the best milk possible is be-
produced and sold from this farm.
The next stop was at the Geo. S.
Taylor farm near Hugo, Mimi. The
Senior herd sire is Gamboge Defend
er,oldest son of Majesty Iris, who
has an official record of 957 pounds
of butter-fat. The Junior herd sire
is son of SYPHILIS Gamboge 3rd.
Mr.. Taylor has pure bred COW,
Ramsgates Signette, who at II years
made very creditable official record
and has five daughters in the Regist-
er of Merit, including Signettes
Hope, who has record of 706 pounds
of fat and is a Gold Medal COW.
Every COW in the herd of Mr.. Taylor,
who is in the Register Of Merit, aver
ages over 480 pounds of butter-fat.
Mr.. Taylor has been working toward
an ideal in the matter Of lines of
breeding and is rapidly approaching
a standard that will have no superior
when it comes to high performing
breeding. This herd consists of so
head. Mr.. Taylor is breeder
who raises most of the individuals
in his herd and is doing some very
constructive breeding. Before leav-
this farm, the folks taking the trip
were refreshed by a hearty lunch
served by Mrs. Taylor and her
daughter. The party left the Taylor
farm in excellent spirits and arrived
next at the National Dairy Council
farm, Forest Lake, MINI. This
farm is under the supervision Of |
Superintendent Tom Bachelor, who
showed the crowd some very inter-
esting demonstrations on the food
value of milk and dairy products
compared with substitutes. The ami
mails being used for these expert
ments are white rats, chickens and
dogs.
This Jersey Tour was arranged by |
County Agent H. G. Seyforth of |
Pierce County, and Frank Astroth,
Fieldman for the American Jersey
Cattle Club, for the purpose of en-
couraging more of the local Jersey
breeders to do testing and more con-
structive breeding, as we'll as show
ing the opportunities that are await
ing the breeders of today. Any breed
err can follow the favorite slogan of
Mr.. Astroth, which is, Breed, Feed,
Weed and Advertise"
These tours are very helpful, not
only to the parties who are making
the inspection, but also to those who
are visited, as the contact of persons
engaged in the same lines of en-
deavor gives an opportunity to help
each other to reach higher standards.