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Nine-year-old Carnation Ormsby Madcap Fayne, an aristocratic Washington cow of Holstein-Friesian parentage, completed last week a new annual world's record for milk production. Carnation, called Capper by her chums, last year gave 24 times her own weight (1,750 lb.) in milk, a total of 41,944 lb., an average of 55 quarts a day-more milk than nine ordinary cows can manage...
...famous Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. He flew over the tawny Colorado Rockies (from Central City, where he attended a frontier music festival, to Denver, where he chinned with stockmen and sugar-beet growers). He puttered around the International Typographical Union's stock farm, chumming up to Holstein-Friesian cattle. He chatted with the San Francisco Chronicle's bumptious young Editor Paul Smith. He talked campaign strategy with Colorado's Governor Carr, Iowa's farm-minded Governor Wilson, National Chairman Joe Martin (by telephone). One night 350 tourists, mostly teachers and young professionals, raised so much...
...ship their bulls to South America on a loan basis. Owners of the best bulls, in fact, generally refuse to ship their prizes anywhere at all, demand that the cows be brought to them. Nevertheless for many months Argentine cattlemen have had their eyes on two fine Holstein-Friesian bulls at the U. S. Department of Agriculture station in Beltsville, Md.: Chief Piebe Ormsby Burke and Double Gerber Colantha Hero, both renowned for transmitting high milk and butterfat productivity to their female offspring. Last July an attache of the Argentine Embassy in Washington approached Roy Ralph Graves of the Beltsville...
...Holstein-Friesian World Lacona...
...TIME-readers who are breeding pure bred dairy cattle-and there are many-were especially pleased to see the picture of the new champion milk and butter fat producer, Carnation Ormsby Butter King, and the story of her significant performance in your Business & Finance section of Feb. 24. Holstein-Friesian >reeders of course, were particularly jubilant...