Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-10-15
COUNTY AGENT NOTES
NATIONAL DAIRY. SHOW
PRESENTS MANY LESSONS

PRESENTS MANY LESSONS
The writer is very sorry that the
work on the farm kept many of the
the Kings and Queens of the Dairy
cattle and many valuable lessons that
were on display at the State Fair
Park.
Words can hardly express all the
wonderful things that one could have
seen and learned at this show. One
thing in particular that 1 wish to
mention at this time was the display
of the various breed associations.
The Jerseys had an exhibit of a
number of COWS which were produc-
ing at the time. Milk from these cattle
was tested each day and the amount
of butter produced by each COW was
also figured and was very interesting
and showed the possibilities of good
cattle properly fed Guy Walker of
Fennimore had one cow in this ex-
hibit, and Grant County should feel
honored to be able to put COWS in such
classes.
The Holstein exhibit showed the re-
suits of breeding brought out very
forcefully by the exhibit of a sire and
his ten daughters all of who's records
were above that of their dams. One
of the best lessons in this exhibit, that
l got from studying it, was that we
should use sires from dams with good
records and who's daughters show in
creased production over their dams.
The Guernsey exhibit, believe was
one that we should take to heart very
seriously, whether it be Guernsey or
any other dairy breeds, as it brought
out the value of starting with good
foundation stock and results are bound
to show. The Guernsey Cattle Club
showed Greta, Pure Bred Guernsey
and her family of twenty-enght head
that was a credit to any breed. Greta
was purchased in 1915 by her owner
for $500, he giving a note at the time
for her and to-day he has twenty
eight head of female stock the results
of this investment. Here too, care
and feed along with the investment
in good foundation stock has mean. .
the success of this particular man. 1t
is nothing that is impossible and any
one could do as much
The Cow Testing Association ex-
h1blt was very instructive, showing
the average COW in the u. S. with a
record of 160 lbs. OF butterfat per
year; the average COW of Wisconsin
which produces 100 lbs of butterfat:
the average Cow Testing Association
COW producing 272 lbs. of butterfat:
the average of the high herd in the
State of Wisconsin in Cow Testing
Assn. work and the high COW in Cow
Testing Association work.
In the same building with the Cow
Testing Association exhibit were gath
cred together 8 wonderful group of
grade COWS that were sold to the high
est bidder on Wednesday, for an aver
age of $12650. Nearly all of these
COWS were COWS with Cow Testing
Assn. records.
Several counties had displays in
this building, including our own. Al
though we are oftentime considered
as beef county we tried to portray
by the use of spot light lantern
machine and twelve slides, that even
though we do not have so many cat
tie, what we have are good. The
fact that we have the high herd anG
the two high COWS of the state, in
their particular breeds, is nothing that
we should be ashamed of.
Other than the things already men
toned that were attractive in this
wonderful exhibit, was the United
States Department of Agriculture ex-
hibit which was composed of twenty
five different lessons. The value of
this exhibit I will not attempt to ex-
plain, but 1 only wish that every far
mer in Grant County could have spent
H. I'LL i -
ing the various parts of this display,
from production to marketing this
greatest business Farming and Dairy
ing" was shown from both sides, both
good and bad. All one would have