No. 1 Cow

Nine-year-old Carnation Ormsby Madcap Fayne, an aristocratic Washington cow of Holstein-Friesian parentage, completed last week a new annual world's record for milk production. Carnation, called Capper by her chums, last year gave 24 times her own weight (1,750 lb.) in milk, a total of 41,944 lb., an average of 55 quarts a day--more milk than nine ordinary cows can manage.

Capper wrested her title from an English shorthorn named Cherry. Cherry had taken her record from Capper's older half-sister, Carnation Orrnsby Butter King, who--according to Capper's press agent--died shortly afterwards of a broken heart.

Capper lives in style: her escort and sole milker, Carl Gockerell, 60, always wears white while petting, pampering, babying and milking her.

For her record-breaking finale on May 21 there was hurly-burly and hubbub on a first-night scale. Lush young models in picture hats drove 45 miles from Seattle. Half a dozen dairy greats flew 1,743 miles from Chicago for the event. Reporters swarmed around the platform where Capper posed behind velvet ropes. Milker Gockerell took his place, started to milk. A nervous photographer interrupted to ask him to move Capper's stern a few degrees to port. Infuriated, Gockerell shouted: "You can't shove a cow like this around. She's got ideas of her own. She's got feelings." Capper calmly chewed her cud, gave down her winning quarts.

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