Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 7, DeMotte, Jasper County, 9 January 1948 — Local Herds Among Medal Winners [ARTICLE]

Local Herds Among Medal Winners

Dairy Herd Improvement Association Comes Up With Five Winners The Dairy Herd Improvement Association of Benton, Newton, Jasper Counties for which Howard Parks is tester, had five winners in the Annual Dairy Medal award sponsored by the Indiana State Dairy Association. Robert Phares and son, Don. Tyler, Simeon Tyler, and Hazel YeOman of the Jasper County and Diener Brothers of White County won bronze* medals according to the announcement released by G. A. Williams of the Purdue Univercity Dairy Extension Staff. Any dairyman having a herd of ten or more cows, each one producing 300 pounds of butterfat or more on test in Dairy Herd Improvement Association or on Offiacial test, is eligible for a medal. Every cow in the herd must be included if she is on test 270 days or more, heifers less than three years of age and aged cows being excepted. Three levels of production are recognized in the making of these awards. A bronze medal is given if each cow in the herd produces 300 pounds of butterfat; a silver medal if each cow in the herd produces 350 pounds of butterfat,

and a gold medal if each cow in the herd produces 400 pounds of butterfat. These awards were made at the annual meeting of the association which was held at the University, December 29.