The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-05-22
=. Lady Completes
r e. Medal Record

Vol Lfee>sS
silver 81, Medal Record
Icing 52s.27 pounds of but
r r., md s545 pounds of milk ilI. in
seria s o., on twice a day milking
10 . aayS this with the produe.
30 i = ! living calf, Holger's Pet
ion :. q osned by A.. J. Thompson y,
I..'ay.s dss has completed ed. her s sill
Es'. a,sdsl record for the breed.
rI .. mecca record is equivalent to oh, the
TINS s.,.,;on Of two pounds OF but
p lassat Der day for mature cows .
Y GERS Pet Lady is a cow y,;. OF
size, and Of good dairy
She completed her test on
up'. a.v milking, being fed aifai-
tTe -. :, corn silage and a grain ra-
% aAs Consisting of corn and cob
a9 ;'1 Ground oats and linseed meal
Az N Il the ration was produced st + on
A. farm q with the exception OF the
~ round md oats and the linse seed meal lea.
ss isu uercent of the grain was
ins m of corn cob mill. Grain
n.a , uas fed uring the year at
.a.'Y rate Of one pound of grain to
:. ..ss three pounds of milk since
s uslaer,s Pet Lady has a high test.
s S~s was dry-lot fed throughout
=. ~ neriod. She began the test at
. - wears and ten weeks Of age.
Che was dry six months during
.hicb time she was fed more heaV-
a. On grain, and is now on her
...est and has produced Do pounds
4 milk, containing 2.41 pounds OF
|sutterfat for her first day. -
Hol0er's Pet Lady was sired by
uoleer,s st. Mawes Noble. a silver
-.dsl bull whose first ten daugh-
=, made the fat requirements
4, silver medal with their first
..Ives. Two Of these daughters
have made the gold medal with
their first calves. He is an Oregon
owned bull. Her dam has a 365
d.y record of 500 pounds of fat as
!. five year old. She was sired by
81. Mawes Golden Poppy, a silver
medal bull which bids fair to be-
come gold medal sire when an
ether COW on test in the Thompson
herd completes her record.
Detailed record by months for
Holgers Pet Lady is as follows:
May 1929 e days)-325 pounds
milk, 1906 pounds of butterfat.
June 1929, 1927 pounds of milk,
6o.61 pounds of butterfat.
July, 1119 pounds milk, 57.96
pounds butterfat.
August, 1904 pounds of milk,
1921 pounds butterfat.
September 1929, 1892 pounds of
51.70 pounds of butterfat.
-1uocsober, 735 pounds milk, 56.74
bounds butterfat.
November. 729 pounds milk, 81
s8 pounds butterfat.
December, TAB pounds milk,
A.s1 pounds butterfat.
January, 1880, 756 pounds milk,
64.51 pounds butterfat.
February 1880, l2S days. 610
pounds milk, 1928 pounds of but
terfat.
March( % days), Ats pounds of
milk, 1921 pounds butterfat.
Her test varied from 494 to 772
with an average of 618. It is prob
aole that she would have added an
otner thirty pounds to her produc-
l0n but for the test being made in
February and March on very
stormy days.
Other cows in the Thomson
aefd are showing up well, one hav-
ng produced ATS pounds in 223
nays; and another 354 pounds of
tat IN l6O days; and a senior year
ing having produced so pounds of
az Ior the first four months. Mr..
thompson now has six cows on Of
slal test, and will put others ON
last as they freshen. According
thompson, this is the first of
lsial test completed for JERSEYS
no probably for all breeds within
he county.