. College and state . character, he produced a son,Proctor Knott, whose first four dams COLLEGE AND STATE 17 average 9,000 pounds mjilk andProctor Knott, when mated withthe proper females sired seventeendaughters and three grand daugh-ters whose average production is442 pounds fat official, making himleading A. R. sire of the breed. It is an interesting fact that evenin a breed having dual charactermany of the greatest sires wereout of tested dams. Among thosethat contributed largely to the earlyhistory of the breed we find twelvethat are out of a dam ranging pounds of butter per week the year
. College and state . character, he produced a son,Proctor Knott, whose first four dams COLLEGE AND STATE 17 average 9,000 pounds mjilk andProctor Knott, when mated withthe proper females sired seventeendaughters and three grand daugh-ters whose average production is442 pounds fat official, making himleading A. R. sire of the breed. It is an interesting fact that evenin a breed having dual charactermany of the greatest sires wereout of tested dams. Among thosethat contributed largely to the earlyhistory of the breed we find twelvethat are out of a dam ranging pounds of butter per week the yeararound. By the same sire and bredthe same on dams side was No. 1,523Floss II, who milked up to 70 grass. As a further tribute tothe blood of this great pair, it isa singular fact that practicallyevery high producing cow in theJean Du Luth Herd, with the ex-ception of old Pear, carries the bloodof the Wild Roses. All theJean Du Luth herd with the ex-ception of old Pear carries the bloodof the Hill Roses. All the. 32 TIMES GRAND CHAMPION from 8,000 to 11,000 pounds milk ina year. Of other great sires notout of tested dams, it is of interestto note that fourteen more werestrong in the blood of Wild Rose ofKilburn. Some were sons whileothers were line bred to the bloodof this great cow. In the early his-tory of the breed, there are seventy-seven records made in England bydescendants of the Wild Rose ofKilburn and these records average8,642 pounds milk. While this cowlived before the days of yearly rec-ords, she was not only a great prizewinner in the show ring but hadthe reputation of averaging 9 worlds records are held in thisherd and the ten highest cows ofthe breed are owned here and havebeen developed on the farm. JeanDu Luth Beauty, whose record in20,280 pounds milk or 891 poundsfat equal to 1,114 pounds butter,is line bred to this blood thru herdam and is sired by the bull, Proc-tor Knott, leading A. R. sire of thebreed. This bull was recently de-veloped on Jean Du Lut
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