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THE OREGON STATESMAN FARMING AND INDUSTRIAL MAGAZINE SECTION W " f I Polk County Has CUSS LEADERS OF THE GUERNSEY BREED IN OREGON. BY SECEH In Guernsey Breed, One Cow in Every Eight Has an Official Record As High as Any of Dairy Breeds if Not the High est A Third as Many Registered as Jerseys Seventh the Number of Holsteins Editor Statesman: Giving the class leaders of the r breed, the following explanations will give the reader a better un A ..-oil. nHinir nf lieCM Anil letter U019WMW"S requirements. Class G is 2 years, U r years, E 3 years, D 3tt years. C 4 years, B. 4 Vt years, rfSind A 5 years or over when the record is started. A double letter class as AA or GG is carrying a calf 265 days or more dar ing the test period, and a triple letter or probably better known a the farmer's class is a record made on. not more than two milk ings per day and completed with in 305 days, aa GGG or AAA. Guernsey Class Leaders The class leaders for Oregon, list rorrected to March 1, 1927, are follows in A: Janis of Sequoia A. 11. record 846.9 pounds butter fat, owned by Edmonds & Fitxpat rick, Tillamook, who also owned Rex'IDaisy of Tillamook, .leader in KE, A. R. record, 614-3 pounds. Class leader in B and also BB was Kate's Princess Jewel of Springcrest, record 729.2 pounds of butterfat, owned by W. A. Good in. Cornelius, also owner of Kate's Buttercup Class E. 73 4.6 pounds of fat. Red Wing of the Glen. Class C, record 607.03 pounds of fat, owned by A. L & J. Hughes, Ore gon City. Class D. Imp. May of the Is sues, 626.5 pounds of butter-fat. owned by the Leonard Estate com pany. Grant Pass. Kings' Bessie of Riverview, Class F, 517.8 pounds, owner Ira (i. Lance, Tillamook. Class FF. Lily's Blossom of Wil low Wood. 611.6 pounds owned by W. O. Keith, Astoria. Imp. Lady's Beauty of Ore Hill. Class G, 619.9 pounds of butter A FEW OF OREGON'S GREAT COWS AS SEEN ConUnued from plfc 1) mark that Mr. West has been a large factor in the development of the breed in Oregon, having im ported and bred many good ones. Up the Valley D. H. Looney. another one of Oregon's pioneer Jersey breeders, was one of the latest exhibitors at the Lewis and Clark Exposi tion, and the strength of the cow class will be better appreciated when we state that his great cow, fl.dy Tina, champion at Oregon state fair in 1904, could not quite get inside the money here. One of Mr. Looney's greatest cows. ehowlng a few years following the great Lewis and Clark Expo sition, was Gamolea J. E. Rioter, by the noted sire Inda Landseer Kioter. In five big shows she won senior and grand champion three times. Ladd Estate's Hazel Fern herd brought distinctive honor to Ore gon in 1907. when out of the nine highest testing cows of different ages, reported by the American Jre9ey Cattle Club, four belonged to that herd. The cows making these records were: Golden Chief's Olpa. Golden Grand Olga Diplo mat's Blue Belle and Peer's Sur prise. Madalena May. owned by Chas. Cleveland. Gresham Oregon, was one of the great cows brought to public attention in 1908. She won THE WORLD'S . , . . , T ' ' ' f ' " More World Record Jerseys Than fat. owned by V. H. Harwood. As toria. In Class AA. Auricula's May of Sequoia has a record of 574.4 pounds of fat, and Auricula's Marie of Tillamook 608.3 pounds of fat in GG. both owned by John J. Berns, Tillamook. Octav Voget. Hubbard, has the following records in the class lead ers for the state: Mizter Comely DD, 502.2 pounds butterfat; Imp. Lady Fanny of la Grande Maison in AAA, 503.6 pounds; Foshay's Jeanette in CCC has 467.6 pounds and EEE 4 68.7 pounds. Foshay's Jeanette has fire official records and is among the long distance cows of the breed. Rieben Brag.. Banks, Oregon, have the following triple letter records: Quicksilver Annette BBB, 483.5 pounds. Giant Oak Farm Lady GGG, 437.0 pounds, and Ore gon Pet, 580.8 pounds fat in DDD; this record gives her first place in the class leaders for the entire breed, and her record in FFF, of 517.3. gives her second place in the class leaders for the breed, as well as placing her at toe head of these classes for Oregon. The average of all records in single, double, and triple letter classes over 25,000 .records is 486.5 pounds of fat. In the Guernsey breed one cow in every eight has an official record. This is perhaps as high a percentage of tested cows as any of the dairy breeds if not the highest. As to numbers the Guernsey breed has one-third the number of animals registered as the Jerseys and one breed. seventh the number of the Holstein MRS. A. I. HUGHES. Secretary Oregon Guernsey Cattle Club. J Oregon City. Ore., Rt. 2, Box 130, Mar. io. 1928. first place at Salem and misted winning the milk contest by only a hair's breath. At Washington state fair, she was first in class, senior and grand champion and winner in the milk contest. At Spokane Inter-state fair, she was senior and grand champion. Adelaide of Beechlands of the Ladd herd as a 2 year old, gave 8363 lbs. of milk and 500 lbs. of butter. As a 5 year old she gave in 1908 the greatest amount of milk of any cow on authenticated test. 15,572 lbs., and led all others with 1003 lbs. of butter. At the Oregon state fair in 1910, we had evidence that show yard type and production were getting very close together when the cows winning 1st and second in. class also won 1st and 2nd in the milk contest. W. J. Domes, 1st with Bonnie Belle M. and W. O. Morrow, 2nd with Morrow's Select. The Late Comers Following is a list or Oregon cows that have won Jersey world's records some time during the past few years: St. Mawes Lad's Lady (Harry D. Iliff). 11756 lbs. 7.05 per cent milk. 829.09 Ids fat. Age 1 year. 11 months. Class "A". Poppy's Dortha (F. E. Lynn). 17804 lbs. 5.28 per cent milk. 994.26 lbs fat. 3 years 4 months. Class "A". St. Mawes' Lad s Pride (H. D. Iliff). 14243 lbs. 7.04 per cent milk 1002. 35 lbs. fat, 3 years 7 months, class "A". Darling Jolly Lassie (Pkkard MOST FAMOUS COW WAS Bros.), 16425 lbs. 6.95 per cent milk. 1141.28 lbs. fat, 4 years. Class "A. Vive La France t Pickard Bros.) 14920 lbs. 6.91 per cent milk. 1031.64 lbs. fat, 4 years 7 months. Class "A". i Sophie's Princess Eulalia (Win. J. Thoraley). 18167 Ibs.4.84 per cent milk, 913.12 lbs. fat. 3 ears 2 months. Class"A 2". The above all on 365 day test. The following all on 205 day test. The Lions L::ac (h. D. Iliff). 10752 lbs. 6.91 per cent milk. 742 lbs. fat. 1 year 9- months'. Class Poet's Mable Mowat (H. Han neman) 14915 lbs. 5.93 per cent milk. S83.93 lbs. fat. 8 years 11 months. Grayraere Alice (M. X, Tibbies). 11465 lbs. 5.08 per cent milk. 581.87 lbs. fat, 1 year 11 months. Class 'A. A. A.' Carry On Phoebe (S. H. Rob inson) 13.145 las. 4.35 per cent milk. 571.22 lbs. fat. 2 years 1 month. CKss "A A A". Special Meatlon Worthy of special mention is the record of Lulu Alphea, owned by J. J. Van Kleek, Scholia, Ore gon. At the age of one year and 10 months she gave 13,668.7 lbs. of milk testing over 6 per cent and making 800.08 lbs of fat. which was 100 lbs. in excess of any rec ord in her class at that time. And to add to tue above impos ing list, now comes Tiddledewinks Quality Girl, owned by Mrs. Flor ence Gale Neal of Oregon City, with a record of 12.845 lbs.. 6.45 per cent milk, and 826.44 lbs. fat. This record just recently compiled establishes her as the world's highest producing senior four year old Jersey cow in the 305 day class. . It is noteworthy that Tiddlede winks made this record on ordin ary farm care, being on pasture with the herd' and reeervlag the same feed ration, and that for eight months of the. teat she was milked by machine. One of the most noteworthy rec ords of Oregon cows, however, is the world's herd record made by 18 cows on 305 and 365 day tests in the McArthur and Stauff herd in Polk county. These cows pro duced an average of 658.02, lbs. of butterfat. a record never before approached by a herd of more than 12 cows of any breed. This feat was accomplished in 1922, and we have seen no account of it ever yet having been equaled. Only three of the cows participating were mature animals at the begin -ing of the test, and the average age of the 18 at that time was only three years and eight months, and all but two were bred by their owners. But enough Jersey flavor for this time. The Holsteins Speaking of Oregon Holsteins. you at once think of "Pa" Frakes. but Jim Stewart of Forest Grove, as I recall, was the first man to breed and exhibit the big black and whites in this state. Mr. Stewart did not last very long in the business, but he started the ball rolling with some good ones and. I think Frakes and F. W. Durbln each secured some of his blood as foundation stock. Mr. Durbin was one of the early ex hibitors of this breed at the Ore gon state fair, and after a few years rest he is back again strong er than ever. Sorry I have no data on his herd, but no doubt he or some one else will write up the Holsteins much better than I can do. I Jnst happen to remem ber that in 1926 he had senior and grand champion on Lady Se gis Pontiae, a cow of great breed, character and production capacity. Two other pioneer breeders and exhibitors of Oregon who have retired from the farm are W. K. Newell and Thos. CarmichacI of Gaston. We have no data at "hand . . Any One State relative to their Individual cowg. but in their time they each owned and exhibited some good ones and without a doubt got some of their foundation stock from the good Stewart herd. -When you think of 'Pa" Frakes you at once think of Peek-A-Boo Artis. truly a great show and dairy cow injier day. But Chlo Mec thilide was the grand old cow with which Mr. Frakes copped off the senior and grand champion ribbons at the Lewis and Clark fair. The blood of these two great cows and of his old herd bHll. Lunde Oregon De Kol, courses the veins of many of Oregon's good Holsteins. For instance Johanna Belle Stanhope, the first Oregn cow to produce 30.00b of milk , in a year, was a descendent from the Frakes herd. She was owaed by Mr. Mullenhoff, Greshanv Ore-, iron. The first prize Holsteln cow at the Pacific International expo sition in 1922 was Tillamook Daisy Butter King De Kol. bred by F. R. Beals of Tillamook and sold by him to Carnation Stock Farm. She is one of the outstanding cows of that noted herd of cows of 1926. bred by A. J. Warner. Model Segls Prllly Gelsche, one of the world'AH-American of Aur ora, Oregon, developed liy D. J. Berning at Mt. Angel, was sold td the Billiwhaek Stock Farm, Ox nard. California. At the Pacific International exposition in 1925 she stood second to the world's champion cow. In 1923 she was reserve ail-American aged eow. In 1926 she was sen:or and grand champion at the Sesqui-Centennial International exposition at the Waterloo dairy congress and at the Indiana state fair. She has a record of 128.3.02 lbs. batter and 31.588 lbs. of milk and is a beauty to behold. " Northwest Outstanding It may be fudging a little bit to quote R. E. Everly, field rep resentative of National Holstein association as to Holsteins in the northwest, but it can be no crime, since Oregon orlgionafty includ ed the whole northwest and many of the cows referred to are in Oregon, or were brec Here and sold to their present owner. He says the northwest has only five per cent of all the Holsteins in the United States, but that the north west does have: The first cow to produce as much as 35,000 pounds of milk and the only cow to have pro duced that amount twice. The first and only cow to have produced 37,000 pounds of milk in one year. . The first cow to have produced as much as 33,000 pounds of milk. The first cow to iave prodnced 30.000 pounds of milk at two dif ferent years. 'The first cow to have produced 1.000 pounds or more of butter for four different years. The only cow to have produced as much as 1400 pounds of butter fat for two different years. Of 118 Holsteins which have produced 1000 pounds or more of butter in one year, the north west has produced 37 of them. The Guernseys The Guernsey cow has not been doing business in Oregon as long as has the Jersey and the Holstein, but in the few years she has been on the job she has made rapid strides and is making her influ ence felt in the improvement of the dairy stock of the state in phenomenal manner. We are indebted to Mrs. A. I. Hughes for the following data on the class leaders of the Guernsey breed in Oregon. (As Mrs. Hughes gives the same information in her letter in this issue, this data is omitted Ed.) Mrs. Hughes has given no show ring records, modesty preventing, since her own cows have been conspicuous winners in recent OF THE HOLSTEIN BREED Outside of Oregon years. Sorry to have no data, but one fact stands oat worthy Jt mention, vis: At the Alaska Yu kon Exposition, In competitlgs with the champion winners on the eastern circuit, two Oregon cows won first and second. First in, class and senior and grand champ ion was won by Kate's Beauty and second in class was won by Evaline's Queen of Oregon. Both these cows were bred, owned and exhibited by D. H. Looney. pion eer Guernsey breeder, who ha dene much to bring this breed to the fore in the state. Mrs. Hughes is responsible for the statement that from two Guernsey females bought in Clackamas county in 1912, in 1927 the Guern sey ' breeders sold 170 head of pure breds and 8 grades for a rdund $35. 000. That should da for a clincher on the Guernsey as a money maker. The Brown Swiss Joining forces with the other dairy breeds in the batle against the scrub, the Brown Swiss have, : in & nulAt h4fn rodarln ' good service for many years, B. P. Inman of Junction City and Theo. Brugger of Gresham are the pioneers with this breed In Ore gon, joined in recent years by a live wire in the persoa e J- Bo eckli of Linnton. Sorry we have no data on their records at the pail or in the show ring, but perhaps oe of these breeders will furnish some facts along those lines. We do happen to remember that at the A, T. P.. B. P. In man 's Flossie X. won tlxst over all cosaers. Tle Ayrshire The hardy little Ayrshire, so popular In her natlre heath and with her four square adder car ried close up to her body so well adapted to grase legged-off stamp pastures, has not become nusanr ons as might he expected in this state. Many years ago the D y nisiis, of Portland, established the Kel vin Grove herd and for a long time maintained it at a high stan dard of excellence. a fact I think the herd is still well maintained, though they hare not pmt oat a show herd as formerly. lor nxany years. W. J. Domes of Potk coanty es tablished a good sized, represent ative herd of this breed abort years ago, and since his dnath his widow has continued the business on the same farm, bat has not ex hibited. I We have neither production nor show ring records of either of these herds. J. D. MrCKLB Worchester Bldg., Portland, Ore, (Mr. Mickle is Oregon stata dairy and food commissioner, an4 one of the leading men In his field in the whola country. Kdj E WINS IN DEBATE (Following, an item rrom a current bulletin of the department of industrial journalism of the Oregon Agricultural college!) When James, Goes of Portland, senior in agriculture, won first la the Old Line oratorical contest last week against a field of eight representatives from other Ore gon colleges and universities and normal schools, he made It "two straight" for his institution. Last year the contest was won by Rob ert Griffin, Corvallis. who is at present a member of the trans continental debate spuad that Is meeting with outsanding success, having lost but two debates out FARM HE IN