Lily Flagg

Lily Flagg was a Jersey cow

Signal's Lily Flagg 31035 (1884–?), also spelled Flag, was a Jersey cow, the top butter producer in the world in 1892, owned by W. E. Matthews and General Samuel H. Moore of Huntsville, Alabama.[1][2] During her record-breaking year, she weighed 950 pounds (430 kg) and produced 1,047 pounds 3⁄4 ounce (474.93 kg) of butter.[2] Her parents were sire Georgian 6073 and dam Little Nan 15895.[3]

The Sydney Mail reported extensively on Lily Flagg:

Signal's Lily Flagg was bred in Kentucky, and while strictly thoroughbred and a registered cow, she does not belong to any of the fashionable families as the first part of her name would imply, as she is only one-twelfth Signal blood. The credit of her work belongs to the breed, and as Bison's Belle was of the same class this should greatly encourage testing the best cows to find the wonders. She was eight years old at the time of this test and weighed about 950lb. While perhaps not a model cow in appearance, yet she is of good form and, what is much better, of strong constitution, and she looks well enough to go through another year's trial. She has two tested daughters, one of 14lb a week and another of 20lb, thus showing that she possesses that greatest of all thoroughbred gifts, the power of transmitting her good qualities to her offspring, and as she has dropped eight calves (one pair of twins) the world is likely to be greatly benefited by the good work of Signal's Lily Flagg.[2]
Two cows—Bisson's Belle and Signal's Lily Flagg—are on record as producing over half a ton [(453 kg)] of butter in a year. From this to the paltry 152 pounds [69 kg] which is the average of the common scrub beast is a long jump.[4]
  1. ^ "The Finest Jersey in the World". New York Times. 1892-05-29. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
  2. ^ a b c "The Champion Butter Cow - Signal's Lily Flagg". The Sydney Mail. The Sydney Mail. 1892-10-22. Archived from the original on 2013-01-25. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
  3. ^ "Some of the Jerseys at Hood Farm". Hood Farm. 1 (3). Lowell, Massachusetts: C.I. Hood & Co.: 10 1897.
  4. ^ "The Dairy: Pasteurizing and Cream Ferments". Northern Advocate. Northern Advocate. 1893-06-17. Retrieved August 20, 2010.