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Record Butterfat
Scored By DHIA Cows
An all-time record was set in 1349 by Dairy Herd Improvement Association cows in Virginia, R. G. Conne)ly, dairy husbandman for the Extension Service, V.P.I., announces.
There were 555 honor roll herds on test in 1949, making an average per cow of 300 lbs. or more butterfat. Of the number, 111 herds averaged over 400 pounds of butterfat per cow. Four hundred pounds of butterfat means “one-fourth ton of the best butter you can get,” Connelly says. Four herds a\eraged between 500 and 600 pounds per cow.
Testing period was from December 1, 1948 to November 30, 1949.
Amonjfe those farmers whose dairy cattle hit the high mark last year were:
C. R. Hope and Sons, Purcellville, with about 45 cows averaging 14,743 pounds of millk, 596.5 of butterfat,
D. A. Dillard, Agricola, with 60 cows averaging 10,491 pounds of milk, 539.8 of butterfat.
E. A. Farmer and Sons, Gloucester, with 24 cows averaging .10,340 pounds of milk and 512.6 of butterfat,
I. B. Wilson, Jefferson, with 14 cows averaging 13,271 pounds of milk, 504.4 of butterfat.
State average for 1948 was 4,460 pounds of milk, 190 pounds of 'butterfat per cow.
There were 948 herds with 39,339 cows on test in DHIA’s last year in Virginia.
Cattle To Be Tested
More than 10,000 cows on Virginia farms—dams of calves to be sold through the 1950 feeder calf sales—will be tested for Bang’s disease (Brucellosis! before the fall sale series begins, says M. L. Dalton, associate animal husbandman at V.P.I.
The decision was made at meetings in Culpeper and Marion of farm agents from about 40 counties which produce calves for the feeder calf sales.
Dalton explains that the testing program will help make the calves eligible for interstate shipment, and is being done in co-operation with the state-wide brucellosis-eradication campaign. Testing will ' be done by ,the State Department of Agriculture.Early
Dehorninp Advised
Dehorn calves when they’re young! *
That’s th^ advice of Curtis Mast, associate animal husbandman Jht V.P.I., who lists three reasons for early dehorning: it’s easier to do; it’s better for the calves; and it makes for better quality calves.
Mast says there are three satisfactory methods of dehorning— with dehorning tubes, dehorning paste, or the Barnes dehorner. Or you can breed horns out by using polled bulls as sires. County agents can give detailed instructions.
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