The Wonder cow

Found in the collections yesterday, the original contract for building the monument stone of Jersey Cow, Vive La France — the Wonder Cow.  She had the distinction, as E.L.D. Seymour reports in a 1920 article News of the Breeds and Breeders, of “being the only cow that ever made two records of more than 1,000 pounds of butter fat.”*

The headstone was carved at the Capital Monumental Works in Salem in 1925.

The monument stands today on the Oregon State Fairgrounds between the poultry and livestock buildings.

* Article published in Country Life. Vol. 40.  Published by Doubleday publishers, 1921 pg 16