5 6 THE BUTTER INDUSTRY IN UNITED STATES [ 2 8o 



was 224 pounds. In Denmark scientific breeding has been 

 carried on for some time, 1 and the results show that the 

 average production of butter per cow in 1908 was twice as 

 much as it was in 1884. 2 H. E. Alvord writes : 3 " The 

 good dairy cow has now been so long bred to a special pur- 

 pose that instead of the former short milking period, almost 

 limited to the pasture season, it yields a comparatively even 

 flow of milk during ten or eleven months in every twelve, 

 and if desired the herd produces as much in winter as in 

 summer. Whole herds average 300 to 350 pounds of butter 

 a year." C. L. Peck, in Hoard's Dairyman of Dec. 26, 

 1913, says: "There are now in America seventy Jersey 

 cows with records from 710 to 1,176 pounds of butter 

 and averaging over 12,000 pounds of milk per annum, 

 enough in number to supply a Jersey bull, son or 

 grandson to every Jersey breeder in the United States 

 and with a liberal sprinkling of daughters and grand- 

 daughters within five years from this time. Eurotas, 

 whose production of 778 pounds of butter in one year gave 

 her the championship of the world of her time, and which 

 was considered a remarkable event in her day, now has 

 scores of her own breed and hundreds of the several dairy 

 breeds supporting her record." The same writer gives the 

 record of Eminent Bess, a Jersey cow, at 1,132 pounds of 

 butter for the year; and of Lily of Willowmoor, an Ayr- 

 shire, at 1,046 pounds of butter. The record for butter fat 

 up to the present belongs to Finderne Pride Johanna Rue, 

 a Holstein-Friesian cow, owned by the Somerset Holstein 

 Breeders' Co., New Jersey. This cow produced 1,176.47 



1 Vide, Bulletin 129, Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture. 



* Vide, Circular 179, Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture. 



3 Agricultural Yearbook for 1889, p. 392. 



