—Lancaster, Farming, Saturday, June 4. .1977
128
The Capp family poses with the
first red and white Holstein they ever
raised. From Ifeft to'right the family
members are: Debbie, Donna,
William, Sr., Billy, and Elsie Capp.
Red Holsteins
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pounds, which is up there
with the others,” Mrs. Capp
notes. She also pointed out
that of those animals which
milk over 100 pounds, the
butterfat test is 3.8.
“So, I think they’re just as
good as the black and
whites,” she concludes.
When Elsie Capp talks in
the first person, saying “I
got interested,” and “I
think,” and calling them
“my animals,” there is a
reason - she is mainly
responsible for the
introduction of the red and
whites into the family herd.
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“Those red and whites
weren’t my idea,” stated
William Capp during an
interview with Lancaster
Farming. “They’re really
her cows,” he said, looking
over at Ids wife and giving
her the credit.
William Capp had always
been a black and white fan,
but his wife had other tastes.
“I always wanted a red
and white, she recalls,
thinking back to her life on
her father’s dairy farm.
“But, whenever a red calf
was bom, it was sold right
away because it was
considered a freak,”
Although she never had a
red and white, 'she still
harbored the desire to own
one some day.
Then, in 1970, one of the
Capp’s Ivanboe cows had a
red and white bull calf by a
fluke of nature, and Elsie
Capp thought she had her red
and white.
“But, our artificial
breeder came in and offered
us $2OO for him, and he was
gone,” she remembers. The
price of the animal coupled
with the thought of nearly
having one for herself after
all those years, however,
made Elsie more
determined that she was
going to have red and whites.
And, it didn’t help that a
neighbor and business
acquaintance was
developing one of the largest
herds in the state riglit
before her very eyes.
Then, in November of 1973,
the Capp’s bought a bred
heifer which gave birtlr in
January of 1974 to a red and
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white heifercalf which Elsie
had waited for for so long.
“That calf turned out to be
the most spoiled animals we
have in the barn,” she says
with a wry turn of her head
and a silent laugh at her
indulgence.
“We let her run loose in the
bam and she grew up on dog
food,” she continues. “It
used to be cute, but it’s not so
cute anymore when she gets
loose and starts eating up
all the dog food.”
That statement was
verified later in the day
whenj during milking, the
“spoiled brat,” got loose and
headed straight for the dog
food.
“See what I mean?” Elsie
asked with a helpless shrug
of her shoulders.
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however, is the second
highest red and white
producer the Capps own. At
three years old, her
production record is 21,195
pounds of milk and 794 of fat.
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