Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women - Wise Acres Yearbook (Ambler, PA)

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Wise-Acres •♦4SI YEAR’S RECORD (Age 10) Lbs. Milk Lbs. Fat Average (' ) Test Jan. 16-Feb. 1 532.9 32.5 6.1 February 1118.8 68.2 6.1 March ... 1136.3 63.6 5.6 April 1002.9 61.1 6.1 May . . 1062.5 57.3 5.4 June 954.6 55.3 5.8 July 780.1 42.9 5.5 August 664.0 36.5 5.5 September 539.1 34.0 6.3 October 581.4 37.8 6.5 November 470.9 31.0 6.6 December 426.4 27.7 6.5 Total 9269.9 547.9 6.0 Besides this record, Primrose has given us two daughters, Fauvic’s Noble Flo, sired by Fauvic’s Fern Noble, and Tinker Bell, sired by You’ll Do’s Young Count. Golden Tycoon’s Wonderheart was fresh January 21, 1929. She has started her record for the year with a 5' butterfat test. Wonder-heart has given us Heart of Gold, sired by You’ll Do’s Young Count. This offspring will be fresh in the fall, being bred to Sybil’s Gamboge Trinity. For the most part we raise our own feed. Corn and oats are sown on the farm and ground to feed the Jerseys. Cottonseed oil meal, linseed oil meal and gluten feed are bought to make the following ration: 300 lbs. corn 200 lbs. oats 200 lbs. cottonseed oil meal 100 lbs. linseed oil meal 100 lbs. gluten feed The herd is not large enough to make it profitable to run a silo, so mangels are planted every spring to supply the winter succulent. In summer the cows are turned on pasture. There is always a small acreage planted to corn, oats and field peas to be fed green to the cows to give a change from the summer dry condition of a pasture. Now that we know the correct name and the merits of each cow, and are fully aware that feed is both purchased and produced on the farm for their welfare, let us follow them through one day’s program and see what happens: Cf 22

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Our Jersey Herd Martha Walter Bryant To the left of our gardens and down a little slope we find an old stone barn. Red sheds are attached to both sides, and there is one at the end. A quaint little house is built away to the right, which serves as a milk house. This little group of so-called barns, sheds and quaint house is enclosed by a yard most naturally called a barn yard. It is not the group of buildings that I am particularly interested in, but the Jersey cows that are housed, fed and cared for inside. First I want to give credit to Financial’s Fairy Pet Martha. Martha is the mother of four daughters in our herd. She is six years old, and can well boast of her record during the past nine months that she has been fresh. We owe the fact to Martha that her good qualities have been passed on to her daughters. Fauvic’s Fairy Fern, Martha’s eldest daughter, is now the mother of the future sire of our herd—Fauvic’s Gamboge Trinity—sired by Sibil’s Gamboge Trinity. Fern is making a record which assures us that we have been wise in choosing her son for the herd sire. Fauvic’s Fern Maid Marion, full sister of Fern, has been fresh since April 22, 1928. This being her first year, she has not scored as her mother and sister, but is giving credit to her age. Raleigh’s Good Queen Bess and Lady Jane Grey are two younger daughters of Martha. We hope to have them step into the same high place that their mother and sisters occupy. We have another individual—in our herd—Golden Maid’s Gala Primrose, whose record has caught our eye:

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School oj Horticulture - -------------------------------------------------- A.M. 5.30— Barn cleaned in preparation for milking 5.45— Both cows and young stock fed according to the milk production of cows and age of young stock 6.00— Cows milked 7.00— Milk cooled and put in cans and bottles for various delighted customers 7.15— In winter cows are fed hay. In summer go to pasture P.M. 4.30— Barn prepared for milking 4.45— Stock fed 5.00— Evening milking 6.00— Milk placed in cooler to wait for morning 6.15— Cows fed and bedded for the night Development of the Shasta Daisy Mary K. Picrcy The bright warming sun of a summer’s morning was casting its rays over the hills and flooding with warmth the valleys of Lancaster, Massachusetts. On a woodsy incline, sloping away from a rather complacent--looking house, a boy was kneeling on the ground examining a cluster of daisies. Perhaps you wonder why a lively boy should stop in his play to examine so common a plant as our hardy American daisy. But to this lad, Luther Burbank, whose pets were plants, not animals, we owe the development of that beautiful pure white flower called the Shasta Daisy. With an eye trained to variations in plant texture and coloring, Burbank could detect the most desirable qualities to be found in each of three types of daisies. These three types represent the three countries of England, Japan and the United States. The English daisy was singled out because of its remarkable size, while from the Japanese daisy, famed for its purity of color, was derived the whiteness of the Shasta. The common moon-penny daisy of United States contributed hardiness and profusion of bloom. Taking the pollen first from the English daisy, Burbank conveyed it on his watch crystal to the American daisy. Then followed a period of waiting for the two united flowers to ripen their seed. Next he carried pollen from the Japanese daisy to the new seedlings. From these he gathered the best seed, continuing for several years, until about 100,000 seedlings were collected in a space of about ten feet. Then when large