. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 10 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [July. 1919 CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY BREAKS STATE JERSEY BUTTER-FAT RECORD A new record of butter-fat production for a Califor- nia Jersey has been established at the University Farm at Davis, by Interested Jap's Santa making pounds of butter-fat in a year. Two years ago the California state record for a Jersey was 702 pounds, held by Pearl of Venedera, owned by Guy H. Miller of Modesto. Last year this record was passed by three cows: Mermaiden's Fern II, owned by the University of California, making ; Fern's Silver Ray, o
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 10 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [July. 1919 CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY BREAKS STATE JERSEY BUTTER-FAT RECORD A new record of butter-fat production for a Califor- nia Jersey has been established at the University Farm at Davis, by Interested Jap's Santa making pounds of butter-fat in a year. Two years ago the California state record for a Jersey was 702 pounds, held by Pearl of Venedera, owned by Guy H. Miller of Modesto. Last year this record was passed by three cows: Mermaiden's Fern II, owned by the University of California, making ; Fern's Silver Ray, owned by Frank Vanderpool of the Imperial Valley, making , and Interested Jap's Santa of the University herd making S05. The state record cow now raises her own record The new record, which is Santa's five-year-old rec- ord, beats the six-year-old record of Sophie 19th of Hood Farm (later grand champion of the breed) by 8 pounds. It places the University- cow in eleventh place among all the cows of the breed. It is the high- est record of butter-fat production made at an agri- cultural college. The animal husbandry division of the University has achieved honors during the past year by estab- lishing two new records for agricultural college herds. In April it sold a pure-bred Shorthorn bull of its own breeding at the record price for an agricultural college of $5,500. Now it establishes a new record of butter- fat production by an agricultural college cow. TILLY ALCARTRA IS SOLD FOR $$11,200 SIR AGGIE MEADE DE KOL, $11,000 At the big Holstein sale at Philadelphia, Tilly Alcar- tra, world's champion milch cow, was sold by the A. W. Morris Corporation of Woodland for $11,200. Three others of the Morris herd shipped East, ac- companied bv A. W. Morris, Sr., sold as follows: Sir Aggie'Meade De Kol, bull. $11,000; two grand- daughters of Tilly Alcartra, $3,800. The four brought a total of $26,000, an average of $6,500. Tilly Alcartra's production for 191S amounts to 33,4
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