C2S— Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 8,1980
Supreme champ cow
(Continued from Page C 26)
What does a 2100 pound
powerhouse producing 20
tons of milk annually eat,
anyway?
“Everything she wants,”
quips George. Well, not
exactly. No alfalfa hay for
this cow, or silage either.
Both upset her digestive
system. Instead, it’s the
fiber diet provided by a bale
per day of clover and
timothy hay, plus five
feedings daily of gram and
beet pulp.
One concession to this
record setter is her own well
bedded, south exposed
spacious pen. However,
George allows that part of
the reason for her ac
commodation is Ella’s
terribly aggressive nature,
and her tendency to shove
her massive weight around
other herdmates at the feed
facihties. Besides, a cow this
size has trouble squeezing
-through the milking parlor.
“1 guess that
aggressiveness accounts for
her success at the milk pail,
though,” he concedes.
Ella’s on her way to leave
a mark on the Holstein
breeding industry, as well.
Her Wapa Arlinda Con
ductor son is in use in Japan
and a growthy December
heifer calf by Bis-May Astro
Jupiter is attracting visitors
to the Woodbine heifer
stable.
An obvious candidate for
embryo transplanting, Ella
has been super-ovulated and
flushed twice, and flushed in
normal cycles twice. In
recipient dam at the farm
now are four calves of either
Paclamar Bootmaker or
Fleetridge Monitor, and one
each of Elevation Tony,
Paclamar Astronaut and
Eoybrook Starlite. George
hopes to settle Ella to either
Astronaut or Starlite for the
next full-term calf she’ll
carry.
A full sister of Ella’s is
waiting in the wings of the
heifer bam also. Their 12-
year-old dam, an Arhnda
Chief daughter with 26,000
pounds of milk and 900 fat as
a five-year-old, died Sep
tember 1 at Marlu Farms in
New Jersey.
Sunday’s visitors must
have been commonplace to
Ella, who’s received
countless admiring gazes in
the past few months. After
battling severe heat stress
during the Maryland State
Fair at Timomum, Ella
bounced back to defeat
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fierce competition for the
Grand Champion trophy at
the September Harrisburg
Eastern National show.
“Harrisburg’s show was
one of the best they’ve had m
years,” says George. “The
quality of the classes was
really impressive.”
Barely a week later, Ella
stood in the nng of the cir
cular Madison Dairy Expo
arena, proclaimed Supreme
Champion over all breeds by
the judging staff of the
nation’s most prestigious
milking cattle exhibit.
In fact, judges announced
that she was “the best cow
that ever went through the
nng” at the internationally
acclaimed show, which
boasted several thousand
spectators from around the
world.
Then, m another of the
bizarre ups and downs of this
cow’s career, George
thought for a while he might
have to hitchhike home with
Ella and a truckload of
trophies.
The Knight’s truck
developed motor trouble
shortly after leaving
Madison. George says he
“nursed” the vehicle as far
as the Lathrope quarantine
center near Chicago where
Creates
control department
ELBURN, fll. - Curtiss
Breeding Industnes Inc. has
announced the creation of a
new department of Quality
Control and Research and
named Jere Mitchell, for
merly Senior Research
Assistant to Curtiss to head
the new function.
Thomas B. Neff, president
of Curtiss, said in an
nouncing Mitchell’s ap
pointment, “It is ap
propriate that Jerc Mitchell
be our Director of Quality
Control since he, more than
anyone else, is responsible
for the high quality of
Curtiss semen.”
Mitchell joined Curtiss in
1974 as a laboratory
technician and has been
Senior Research Assistant
since 1975. He holds a
bachelor’s degree in Animal
Science from Kansas State
University and a Masters
degree in reproductive
physiology from Virginia’
Polytechnic Institute.
Curtiss, an innovative
he knew there were facilities
to house the champion.
Mechanics corrected the
problems and Ella traveled
home, her usual hungry,
high-producing sell none the
worse for the side tnp.
Now another debate rolls
around the dinner table in
the Knight’s spacious
farmhouse. Will Ella travel
to the Canadian Royal
Agriculture Winter Fair m
Toronto on November 18 and
19? With just a few more
days to make that decision,
George was weighing
trucking Ella North across
the border for another run at
the competition, against the
pressing demand a couple of
hundred of acres of soybeans
still standing in some of the
thousand acres farmed in
the Woodbine cropping
program.
For the cow that won the
Eastern National, was
crowned “queen” of the
Central show and won the
Sidney Waazer traveling
trophy production award
there as well with her nearly
40,000 pounds of production,
there are few tanbark
challenges left. It’s an ac
complishment believed to be
a first in Pennsylvania
Holstein history.
The George Knight Jr.
family moved to their York
County farm in 1957 from
Maryland, where they had a
registered Guernsey
operation and had actively
exhibited the golden-colored
quality
Jere Mitchell
leader in improving both
dairy and beef cattle through
artificial insemination since
1949, is headquartered near
Elburn, Illinois.
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