THE ELGINVUE STORY

Elginvue Farms has been in the Mueller Family for over 70 years. Roy Mueller, and his sons, John & Karl, developed the prefix that would become known around the world for exceptional Holstein and Red Polled cattle that could perform in the barn and in the show ring. The barn at Elginvue stood empty for 17 years until Karl’s son, Kenn, breathed life into the operation once again.
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NEWS FROM THE BARN

Check out the newest section of our website- Elginvue Cattle Marketing. Also check out the Barn Favorites for results from the 2011 Show Season and prospects for 2012!

Elginvue Cattle Marketing LLC
Licensed & Bonded Cattle Broker

Elginvue is excited to announce a new feature of the farm - a new avenue for cattlemen to utilize. We purchase and sell cattle daily. Contacts throughout North America help us to connect sellers and buyers of live animals.

A TRIP BACK IN TIME
with John Busacker
*A regular feature on this site, ‘A Trip Back in Time’ will feature short stories of great cows and herds of Holstein past, written by friend and Holstein historian, John Busacker.

Lashbrook Pearl Ormsby

Old Pearl was bred by A.J. Lashbrook, Northfield, MN. Being born in 1923 in the Lashbrook herd. She was a grand-daughter of Ormsby Sensation, the $20,000 sire from a Homestead-bred dam. She first attracted attention at the Minnesota State Fair in 1929. She was making a record of 971 lbs of fat as a five-year-old, but was showing stale and judge Bob Holtby placed her 9th in the class. However, quite a few people remembered that cow of Al Lashbrook’s and that same fall Melin-Peterson (Bob Melin and Art Peterson, sale managers) wanted her for the National Ormsby Sale to be held at the State Fairgrounds in October.

Mr. Lashbrook wanted to consign Lashbrook Pauline Ormsby, her maternal sister, but when Art Peterson came to the farm he insisted on Pearl. Al Lashbrook didn’t hesitate, as Pearl could sometimes be a very head-strong individual. Pearl topped the sale at $3,500 to the Detroit Creamery Farm, Mt. Clemens, MI. In 1931, she was a last minute entry in the Royal Brentwood sale and purchased for $2,400 by J.H. Remick, a well-known music publisher who had just retired as President of the Detroit Creamery Farm and wanted to start his own herd.

In 1932 after Mr. Remicks passing, his estate dispersed the herd. Pearl was now nine-years-old and not pronounced safe in calf having just recently been bred. She sold for $620 to Paul Misner, the manager of Dunloggin Farm, Ellicot City, Maryland. Pearl proved to be in calf and in January gave birth to Dunloggin Woodmaster. The sire of Woodmaster was a little known bull named Bess Burke Ormsby Lad. The sire of Lad, however, was Ormsby Sensation. Dunloggin Woodmaster was a double grandson of Ormsby Sensation. His legacy at Dunloggin left a major impact on the breed. Show winners, honor list records cow families, an array of outstanding sons, they did it all.

The Dunloggin herd was the most outstanding herd of any breed when it was dispersed in September 1943. The sale averaged $1,835 on 210 head. Lashbrook Pearl Ormsby’s claim to fame rests upon these simple but beautiful words beneath her pictures that graced the sale catalog. Her 175 descendants in the herd is her contribution to Holstein history. None greater ever lived.