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{{Short description|1892 top butter-producing jersey cow}}

[[File:Lily Flagg.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Lily Flagg was a Jersey cow]]

'''Signal's Lily Flagg''' 31035 (1884–?), also spelled '''Flag''', was a [[Jersey cattle|Jersey cow]], the top [[butter]] producer in the world in 1892, owned by W. E. Matthews and General Samuel H. Moore of [[Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], [[Alabama]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E0CE3DE1538E233A2575AC2A9639C94639ED7CF |title=The Finest Jersey in the World |date=1892-05-29 |work=New York Times |access-date=August 15, 2010}}</ref><ref name="sydney">{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VX8QAAAAIBAJ&pg=4747,4439417&dq=lily+flagg&hl=en |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125060533/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VX8QAAAAIBAJ&sjid=l5UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4747,4439417&dq=lily+flagg&hl=en |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-25 |title=The Champion Butter Cow - Signal's Lily Flagg |date=1892-10-22 |work=The Sydney Mail |publisher=The Sydney Mail |access-date=15 August 2010}} </ref> During her record-breaking year, she weighed {{convert|950|lb|kg}} and produced {{convert|1047|lb|3/4|oz|kg}} of butter.<ref name="sydney" /> Her parents were sire Georgian 6073 and dam Little Nan 15895.<ref>{{cite journal|year=1897 |title=Some of the Jerseys at Hood Farm |journal=Hood Farm |publisher=C.I. Hood & Co. |volume=1 |issue=3 |page=10 |location=Lowell, Massachusetts}}</ref>