Illinoig Jersey Goes 



To Mew York Fair 



Illinois' top-ranking Jersey cow, Maj- 

 esty's Success Countess, aged 6, owned 

 and bred by Chester McCord, lAA direc- 

 tor from Jasper county, is going to the 

 New York World's Fair. 



"Tess," as she is known in the Mc- 

 Cord household, is one of 30 cows se- 

 lected to represent the breed in an ex- 

 hibit, "The Dairy World of Tomorrow. " 

 The American Jersey Cattle Club, in 

 picking representatives of the breed, 

 specified that each cow must be almost 

 perfect in type, have a record of 600 

 pounds or more of butterfat and a per- 

 fect bill-of-health. Tess was the only 

 Illinois Jersey selected. 



In the exhibit, 150 head of the na- 

 tion's finest milkers, 30 of each of the 

 five breeds, will live in sterile surround- 

 ings where spectators will view them 



through glass walls. They will be 

 washed, dried and milked on a slowly 

 revolving platform called a Rotolactor. 



"Tess is the result of 17 years of 

 breeding and naturally I prize her high- 

 ly," Mr. McCord said. "She is a grand- 

 daughter of 'Old Bess,' my best founda- 

 tion cow that produced an average of 

 more than 500 lbs. of butterfat annually 

 for seven consecutive years. In the event 

 Tess is sold I will contract to retain her 

 unborn calf to keep her blood in my 

 herd." 



Chester McCord's ten year herd aver- 

 age is 457.3 pounds of butterfat per 

 cow, probably the highest on record in 

 Illinois for such a period. 



The McCord herd has been high pro- 

 ducing Jersey herd in the state several 

 times, and was second high among all 

 breeds twice. The herd has been making 

 the State Fair and National Dairy Show 

 circuit for many years where winnings 

 have yielded a nice profit above expenses. 



Disking Limestone into permanent 

 posture before clover seeding to in- 

 crease feed — Bond County. 



Spreading Limestone on Oats 

 stubble and new clover in 

 August — Whiteside County. 



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Your County Farm Adviser is ready to help you. 



Soil Improvement Department 

 ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 



SOME OF McCORD'S PRIZE lERSEYS 

 Dreaming Sultan's Gold below has a 



record of 671.8 lbs. of butterfat in 305 da. 



as a 4 yr. old. She was first prize cow at 



the Illinois State Fair, second at Waterloo 



Dairy Congress. 



The McCord's famous foundation 

 cow, Old Bess, was exhibited at the Na- 

 tional Dairy Show in 1935 with her five 

 daughters. The six head which had been 

 milking at that time a combined period 

 of 27 years and 7 months or approxi- 

 mately an average of 41/^ years and one 

 month per cow yielded a gross income 

 of $5,779.63 from the sale of cream, 

 butterfat, and breeding stock. 



Trained at Charleston Normal to be 

 an accountant, Chester McCord went 

 farming for his health after he returned 

 from the army, starting with two grade 

 Jersey cows, a sulky plow and three 

 cheap work horses on a run down 100 

 acre farm. Today he has a purebred 

 herd of 35 to 40 head, operates 425 

 acres of land in Jasper county with a 

 tractor and four mules. 



Stocks Butter High 



Stocks of butter are still high and 

 production continues upward says the 

 Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Con- 

 sumption kept pace with production in 

 January, both averaging around 12 per 

 cent above January a year ago. Resump 

 tion of stabilization buying by the 

 DPMA is the only means of increasing 

 butter prices in the near future, some 

 market students believe. 



Argentine Wheat Crop 



Eyes of the wheat market are on Ar- 

 gentine where the second largest crop 

 in history is awaiting sale. If the crop is 

 dumped on world markets, world prices 

 can be expected to drop. Prospects for 

 a smaller U. S. crop as compared to 

 1938, wheat withdrawn from trade by 

 wheat loans and an increased export de- 

 mand kept domestic prices unchanged 

 although Liverpool prices recently 

 reached the lowest point of the season. 



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