Ella
BY JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
AIRVILLE Northcroft Ella
Elevation, world-renowned
registered Holstein owned by the
George Knight Jr. family.
Woodbine Farms, Airville, and
Romandale Farms. Ltd., Ontario,
Canada, added another chapter to
her scrapbook of bovine ac
complishments.
During herd scoring last Friday,
Holstein Association classifier
Clarence Common, Jr., - raised
Ella to 97-2 E points, adding her
name to the less than two dozen
cows in Holstein history to achieve
this recognition.
A daughter of the popular Round
Oak Rag Apple Elevation, Ella
was born in 1974. Her dam was
Northcroft Ella Arlinda, sired by
Pawnee Farms Arlinda Chief,
scored 2E-91, with top records to
25,000 milk.
Although she suffered a double
! abomasum twist shortly after
freshening at two years, 9 months,
Ella finished her first lactation
with 32,802 milk, 1101 fat, in 364
days, and was selected All-
American 3-year-old in 1977.
The following year she capped
that off with a 1411 fat record, and
earned the title of Jr. All-American
4-year-old.
In 1960, Ella took the cham
pionships at both the Eastern and
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enters Holstein history;
Central national shows and earned
selection as the AU-Amencan Aged
cow, the first to unanimously win
that award in 16 years.
Through it all she still produced
another lactation at 5 yr. 9 mo., 365
days, of 44,143 milk, 1698 fat.
One month ago, at the Royal
Winter Agriculture Exposition in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Ella
was selected grand champion and
ST. JOSEPH, Mo - The grand
champion Angus, bull of the 1982
National Western Stock Show will
officially become the 10 millionth
animal recorded in the American
Angus Association herd book,
reports Dick Spader, association
executive vice president.
The bull which is slapped by
show judge Jake White for the
Angus bull grand championship at
Denver will have its'registration
certificate number changed to
“10,000,060”. It has long been a
tradition to honor a show winning
Angus with an even million
registration number each tune a
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best uddered individual at
Canada’s largest Holstein show.
Sons ot Ella are Select Su - es
and in the Japan Holstein Breeding
Service. Her first daughter at
Knights just recently freshened at
1 yr. 11 mo. and scored VG-85.
While tew dairy families can
experience the raising of one of
their animals to the mountaintnn
Angus Assn, records 10 millionth
animal at Nat’l Western
million cattle have been added to
the Herd Book.
The first animal to >e so honored
with registration number 1,000,000
was Master Prince of Sunbeam,
the grand champion bull at the 1947
International Livestock Ex
position. The last animal was
Sayre Patriot, registration number
9,000,000, the grand champion bull
at the 1977 North American In
ternational Livestock Exposition.
The growth of the American
Angus Association, as measured
by total registrations, had nearly
all taken place since World War H,
when the pent-up demand for beef
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scores 97
score of 97, it was not a first for the
Knight family.
Their home-bred Woodbine
Ivanhoe Mollie was also scored 97,
4-E, back m the 70’s, and collected
a myriad ot achievements in show
winnings, production records, and
All-American honors.
According to James Pound, head
of classification programs at the
caused by the war, and the
availability of gram for livestock
feeding created a large consumer
demand for high quality beef.
Demand for Angus cattle began
to grow at the same time and more
than 90 percent of all cattle
recorded in the American Angus
Association herd book have been
added since the late 1940’.
The American Angus
Association was formed in
November 1883 and the first Angus
were recorded soon after. The first
herd book published by the
“American Aberdeen-Angus
Breeders Association” was printed
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Brattleboro, Vermont, a total of 19
animals in Holstein history have
achieved the vaulted 97-point
scoring, only two of those were
bulls. The first cow ever be scored
to 97, was the Wimpy cow in 1963,
from Sunny Lee farms owned by
Nelson Raider, Wisconsin.
Only eight 97-point females, and
no males, are living today.
in 1886 and contained 5,200 entries.
Many of the first animals
registered in this book were bred m
Scotland and imported into the
United States.
Several of the famous early
Scottish Angus pioneers such as
William M’ Combie and Hugh
Watson are represented in the first
U.S. Herd Book. The animal that
carries the registration number 1
is Felix of Boghead, a bull owned
by A.D. Hudnall of West Las
Animal, Colorado, and bred by
William McKnight of Boghead,
Scotland.
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