Eagle River Review

DAIRY COW AN ARISTOCRAT

Pennsylvania Animal Cared for as She Deserves, Considering the "Goods" She Produces.

Here is another example of efficiency and devotion. May Rilma, an American bred Guernsey belonging to Maj. Edward B. Cassatt of Berwyn, Pa., has completed a year's test in which she has established a record for the production of butter fat-1,059.59 pounds, equivalent to 1,236.18 pounds of butter, Collier's states. The ex-champions are Holsteins--Colantha 4's Johanna, the property of W. J. Gillette of Rosendale, Wis., and a cow owned by F. F. Field of Brockton, Mass. Owners' names are worth repeating, too, for the human factor counts even in cow championships. Nothing that experience or science can offer was neglected by the Pennsylvania cow's ambitious master. May Rilma has enjoyed absolute comfort: a roomy box stall kept clean; wide windows screened with muslin to prevent direct draft; a carefully groomed coat that any race horse might envy; an even temperature, as near 60 degrees as possible (no wasted effort in resisting cold or heat); a scientifically balanced ration of grain, vegetables, ensilage and alfalfa-the last two always before her, but removed from the racks at the end of the day and replaced by fresh. Nothing has broken in upon her perfect peace. She has the absolute devotion of one attendant, who sleeps in an adjoining box stall fitted up as a cell-like room. Here stands the stove that regulates the evenness of the winter temperature. No cow likes to change milkers. This one is milked (always by the same man) at eight-hour intervals-4 a. m., 12 m., 8 p. m. And over and above earning for herself this luxurious living and paying for a quarter of one's man wage, she nets her owner $716 annual profit. After all, though, it wasn't only Major Cassatt and Queen May Rilma who won out. Much credit belongs to Albert Van Tuinen, first gentleman in waiting, who did the milking.