Making Mooosic!

WBZ's Jordan Rich says this farm plays music to help her cows produce milk. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Upside with Jordan, A dose of good news,
because it's a big world out there. I've taken out
of merry Old England to smith Hill's open dairy farm
in Bolton, where the young farmer, Caitlin Horricks have been
having little trouble with her cows, Holstein's and Jerseys surrendering
enough milk. I guess she tried other things to help
boost production, but then the idea of playing music or

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music for the cows came up as an idea, and
at first she piped in some recorded music and lo
and behold, it was jazz that actually increased production up
to four percent. So the young female farmer took it
a step further and brought in a Dixieland jazz band,
the Dixie Beats, to play live in front of several
brown and white, four legged audience members. The event was

(00:41):
captured on video and went viral, and everyone from the
farm hands to the musicians to Elsie herself were utterly enthrall.
Music works in so many strange and wondrous worlds. And
that's the upside with Jordan WZ Boston's news radio