The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-06-16
KMlRElNE CkIILE.
HzAn- OF HOLsTEI1TE AT THE
WORLDS FAIR.
Are Out fer = 1ecord-The Average
Weight Il !, 700 POunds-Won-
herful 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 15
big Holstein cows ON which the Hol-
STEM 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
atiVe herds OF Jerseys, Devons, Brown
Swiss and Shorthorns. and the same de-
gree Of confidence is evinced among the
followers of each breed.
q. B. Won Heyne, who has earned an
enViable reputation as a developer Of
milch 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, az a dairy cow especially, as
we'll as for general purposes, has no
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
1t will be different. We are here to win
that prize" and the superintendent
leaned back in a self-satished manner,
as though It were all over but the shout
ing. q
The Holsteins, said Mr.. Won Heyne,
have been bred In Holland and the Fr!e-
sian islands for more than 1000 years,
and he thinks that In that country the
science OF dairylng 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 1900 pounds. The Holstein
colors are pronounced and unmistak-
able-the black and white mottled. The
good COW is never fat. Mr.. Won Heyne
explains this by saying that the ideal
cow is a machine and that her mission
is to asslmilate her food and convert II
into milk. The milch COW is not bred
for the flesh.
"A good Holstein cow is never fat, u
said Mr.. Won Heyne. "She Is a machine
for the manufacture Of milk-not tai
low"
The first importation of Holstein cat
tie to America was made in 1921. Other
importations were made at later dates
but no attempt was made to keep the
breed pure until 1861, when w. w
Chenery, Of Belmont, Mass. brought
over q herd. Since then many other
herds have been imported, and there are
as many pure blood Holstelns in the
United States now asthere are Jerseys
"While I confidently expect to tri
umph over the Jerseys and all othel
breeds here at the worlds fair, wan
to say that we did not consider 1t neces
sary to 60 to the length that the jersey
people did. They selected the choices
specimens from all over the United
States. They assembled their cows a
Ierseyvilie. ILL.,, near st. Louis, and hav'
kept them in training for year.
when the Holstein-Friesian asso
: citation decided to enter the contest
went out into one county In New Yorl
State and bought some of the cows
The remainder will come from Wiscon
; sin. sThey are just good, average, pur'
. blood Holsteins, the same as may b.
found in any hrst-class dairy farm
There 10 no need to spend time in &C
climating Holsteins. They do well II
Russia and equally as well in South AT
rica or any climate in the world
1.-THE milk OF the Holsteins is not quit
as rich as the milk of the Jerseys. Blu
. 1t more than makes 1t up In the quantity
! A Holstein COW at the internationa
agricultural exhibition at Amsterdam
. from September Z, 1883, to June 7, 1884,
produced 1923 pounds of milk. TIL
: record of Pietertje II. for one year I
. 3O,i82 pounds OF milk.
Mercedes Julipes Pieterje, a COW de
, veloped myself, produced as six-year
old in an onacial seven-day test 20 pound
;. and three ounces Of butter. o
: "Sadis Voll Concordia, the preser
worlds champion, not alone among th
): Holsteins, but Of all breeds, produced /
!. an official test In seven days 697 pound
of milk, which yielded 80 pounds an
: ten ounces Of butter. This test wa
made III New York state at the Corne
> experiment station in 1903. This CO
at the age of 13 years sold for $2,3O
4 calf from this splendid COW, at the az
OF four weeks. sold for $4,000.
n "Now the Holstein is not only mil
producer without an equal, but she is
: beef producer as well. We will con
g pete with the Shorthorns on the be,
e production, thing the Jerseys woul