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...amendment's support came a sudden flash flood of letters and telegrams from U.S. drys. Sample, received by Kansas' Senator Arthur Capper: "The Lydian Class of the College Hill Methodist Sunday School . . . urges the adoption of the Lee amendment...
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...
...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...