The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1904-06-11
REMARKABLE CATTLE
HERD OF HoLsTEINs AT TIE
WORLDS FAIR.
Are Out for q Record-The Average
Weight Is 5000 Pounds-Won-
derful Milk Producers
Age Of the Breed.

Calmly chewing their cuds in COM
Portable stalls in a model barn on the
worlds fair grounds at St. Louis are Is
big Holstein cows on which the Hol-
stein-Friesian association pin their
faith and are confident that they will
demonstrate the superiority over all
other breeds Of cattle.
In other stables near by are represent
alive herds of Jerseys, Devons, Brown
Swiss and S%horthorns, and the same de-
gree of confidence is evinced among the
followers of each breed,
e. B. Won Heyne, who has earned an
enviable reputation as a developer Of
mich cows, is in charge of the Holsteins
at the worlds fair. He thinks this breed
is the best in the world, and he says
that the present test will surely settle
the question and demonstrate that the
Holstein, as a dairy COW especially, as
well as for general purposes, has nc
equal.
Eyes" said Mr.. Won Heyne, as some
of the Jerseys were driven by, "the Jer-
sey COW won in Chicago, but then it
had no competition. The Holsteins did
not participate in that test, but this time
It will be different. We are here to win
that prize" and the superintendent
leaned back in a self-satisfed manner,
as though 1t were all over but the shout
ing.
The Holsteins, said Mr.. Won Heyne,
have been bred in Holland and the Frie-
sian islands for more than 1000 years,
and he thinks that in that country the
science Of dairying is as far advanced as
in any other country of the world.
The Holstein COW is angular of frame,
rawboned and big. The average weight
is about 5000 pounds, The Holstein
colors are pronounced and unmistak-
able-the black and white notified. The
good COW is never fat, Mr.. Won Heynt
explains this by saying that the idea.
COW is a machine and that her mission
is to assimilate her food and convert /
into milk. The mich COW is not bret
for the flesh.
"a good Holstein COW is never fat,
said Mr.. Won Heyne. "She is a machin
for the manufacture of milk-not tai
low"
The first importation OF Holstein cat
tie to America was made in 1921. Othe
importations were made at later dates
but no attempt was made to keep III
breed pure until 1861, when w "
Chenery, of Belmont, Mass, brougf
) over a herd. Since then many otht
herds have been imported, and there al
as many pure blood Holsteins in II
United States now as there are Jersey
: f"While l confidently expect to TT
4 umph over the Jerseys and all 9th
! breeds here at the worlds fair, | wal
i to say that we did not consider it nece
= sary to go to the length that the Jerst
I people did. They selected the choice
specimens from all over the Unite
7 States. They asserAbled their cows
~Jerseyville, H., neal ST. Louis, and haN
: kept them in training for a year.
: when the Holstein-Friesian ass
. citation decided to enter the contest
went out into one county in New Yor
State and bought some Of the COW
, The remainder will come from Visor
sin. They are just good, average, pul
: blood Holsteins, the same as may
found in any first-class dairy farm
There is no need to spend time in al
climating Holsteins. They do well I
Russia and equally as we'll in South A.
. RIGA or any climate in the world.
1.-THE milk Of the Holsteins is not quit
as rich as the milk of the Jerseys. BIZ
It more than makes it up in the q%uantit,
o A Holstein COW at the i~nternation'
A agricultural exhibition at Amsterdam
n from September Z. 1883, to June Z, 1888
produced 1929 pounds of milk, tt
record Of Pietertje II. for one year
Il 30,1S2 pounds OF milk.
Mercedes Julipes Pieterje, a COW l d.
: veloped myself, produced as a six-yea
4. old in an official seven-day test 20 poun'
n and three ounces Of butter.
It Sadie Voll Concordis, the preseI
a worlds champion. not alone among Il
I. Holsteins, but Of all breeds, produced
an ofHcial test in seven days 697 poun,
Of milk, which yielded 30 pounds al
s. ten ounces of butter. This test vi
made in New York state at the Corn'
Z, experiment station in 1903, This &C
at the age Of 10 years sold for $3.50
n A calf from this splendid COW, at the a
Of four weeks. sold for $1,000.
Or Now the Holstein is not only a mi
producer without an equal, but she Ii
In beef producer as well. We will col
pete with the Shorthorns on the be
production, a thing the Jerseys won
never attempt. The Holstein is t
g. practical and economical breed Of cat
Is for the United States. and 1t will
ry proven at the test this summer"
o.