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[The picture shows Barbara Lucksinger, a New York 
girl, and her prize Jersey. This animal is the heifer 
which won grand champion over all ages and breeds in 
the junior project class at the 1924 State Fair. She 
was one of the four animals picked to represent New 
York at the National Dairy Show in Milwaukee, where 
she won further honors. This remarkable animal re¬ 
ceived remarkable care. She had to' be well bred and 
well cared, for in order to win first prize in her class 
and then sweepstakes of the breed at the great dairy 
show. Miss Barbara has written the following inter¬ 
esting account of her calf and its care.] 
ESS Ilian five years ago my father sold his 
grade Holstein cows and bought a few reg¬ 
istered Jersey cows. Being right in the 
Holstein center, we were under all kinds 
of criticism, but we showed them that we 
soon were doing better than our neighbors 
with our cattle, as this was the only income we had. 
So we children naturally became interested, and our 
wish was to own a calf. Four years ago father 
gave my brother and me a calf, which w r e raised, and 
when these two heifers were 1 y 2 years old a Jersey 
breeder came and bought the two heifers, with two 
other cows, of my father. He paid us $1,000 for four 
head. 
Then father 'gave us, each of the throe oldest of 
six children, a new calf. Mine was a day old. 1 
named her Sybil’s Oxford Pretty One. Her sire is 
by Sybil’s Gamboge 3d, which was sold for $13,000. 
Her dam, a heifer, was a full sister to Oxford Gold 
Lady, who had two Register of Merit records. I 
raised her all by myself. 1 started her with 4 lbs. 
of milk and increased the amount to 6 lbs. daily 
when I gradually replaced it with skim-milk, giving 
8 lbs. a day. I also fed her a handful of grain, a 
mixture of bran, ground oats, cornmeal and oil- 
meal. which I also gradually increased in feeding. 
She had all the hay she wanted to eat up clean. 
'She was born on September 19, 1922. The next 
September I showed her at the State Fair. I won 
first prize on her in the Junior Project Class; then 
she was selected by Prof. Hopper for the National 
Dairy Show, where I won fourth in her class, and 
T won third in the special class offered by the New 
Yiork Central Railroad. I won about $00 in pre¬ 
miums. 
I decided I would get still a better calf, and as I 
had several offers from well-known show and high- 
production herds, I finally chose a calf valued at 
$250, but being a Junior Project work the owner let 
me have her cheaper. I got Raleigh’s Golden Mazie 
in April, then six months old. Her sire is Sybil’s 
Model Prince, for which the owner paid $0,100, and 
he is a son of Sybil’s Gamboge, which sold for $65,- 
000. Her dam is Fair Lady's Raleigh's Helen, now 
on Register of Merit test. Both of these families of 
breeders are the most noted winners in the show 
ring, and are great producers. 
I kept feeding her skim-milk and grain; hay, all 
she would eat. I turned her out nice days until 
July 1: then I put a blanket on her to protect from 
flies and keep her hair smooth. Then I brushed her 
every day and took her out for exercise, and taught 
her to pose. 
The first week in August I began to show at the 
four county fairs. At DeRuyter Fair, in the junior 
show, I captured first prize; then first prize at Long 
Branch; then first, champion and grand champion 
over all breeds at the New York State Fair, and the 
same glory at the National Dairy Show. 
I have raised the calves under direction of my 
father, John Lucksinger, and our able County Lead¬ 
er, Wm. F. E. Heinzelman. 
I have often been asked why I like the Jersey 
breed best. First, for economical production; giv¬ 
ing a dairy product that is unsurpassed in quality, 
and is the most beautiful cow of all breeds. They 
are raised with the least amount of feed, and pro¬ 
duce the most for the feed consumed. 
BARBARA M. LUCKSINGER. 
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Barbara Lucksinger and Her Champion Heifer , Raleigh’s Golden Mazie 
