Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-05-18
REMARKABLE CATTLE
HERD OF HoLsTEINs AT THE
WORLDS FAIR.
Are cut for a Record-The Average
Weight Is 1000 Pounds-Won-
derful Milk Producers
Age of the Breed.

Age OF the Breed.
Calmly chewing their euds in COM
Portable stalls in a model barn on the
worlds fair grounds at ST. Louis are 10
big TIoIstein cows en- which the Hol-
stein-Friesian association pin their
faith aud are confident that they viii
demonstrate The superiority over ali
OIL ar breeds Of cattle.
In other stables near by are represent
alive herds CT Jerseys, Devons, Brown
swlas and Shorthornz, and the same de-
gree OF confidence is evinced among the
followers Of each breed
- f. Won Heyne, who has earned an
enviable reputation as a developer of
mllch COWS, is in charge of the Holsteins
at the worlds fair HethinEs this breed
is the best ia the world, and he says
THAI the present Jest win surely settle
the question and demonstrate that tho
Hol8toin as a dairy COW especially, as
well as FOR general purposes, has no
equal
Yes" said Mr.. Won Heyne, as some
Of the Jerseys were driven by. "tke Jer-
ser cow won in Chicago, bit then it
had no competition. The Holsteins did
NOS participate in that test, but this time
Il sill be different We are here to win
hat prize" and the superintendent
leaned back in a self-satisaed manner,
as though it were all over but the shout
Ing.
The ITolsleins, said Mr. Won Heyne.
have been bred in Holland and the Erie
sian islands for more than 2.oo0 years,
and he thinks that in that country the
science Ct dairying is as far advanced as
in any other country 81 the world
9Fko IIoletei1 COW is angular Of frame.
rawn0red agd big The average weight
is about 5000 pounds. The iIolstein
colors are pronounced and gnmistak-
able--tfe black and white motJed. The
good COW is never fat. Mr.. Won Heyne
explains this by saying that the ideal
COW is a machine ard that her mission
is to assimilate her food and convert it
into milk The milch COW is not bred
for the flesh.
"a good IIolstein COW is never fat,
said lIr Won Hayne. "she is a machine
for the manufacture Of milk-not tall
low"
The first importation OF Holstein cat
tie to America was made in 1921 Other
importations were made at larsr dates,
but no attempt was made to keep the
breed pure until 1851, whea W w.
Chenery, of Belmont. Mass. brought
over a herd. Since then many ether
herds have been imported, and there are
as many pure blood Holsteins in the
United States now as there are Jerseys.
while I confidently expect to tri-
umph over the Jerseys and all other
breeds here at the worlds fair, I want
to say that We did not consider it neces-
sary to go TO the length that the Jersey
people did They selected the choicest
specimens from all over the United
States. They assembled their cows at
Jerseyville, IL, near st. Louis, and have
kept them in training for a year.
when the Holstein-Frieslan asso-
citation decided to enter the contest
went out into one &C MY in New York
NEAktG EAtA bOAl-llt SUNNI VI AA4E NON D
The remainder viii come from Wiscon-
sin They arc just coed. average, pure
blood Holsteins, the same as may be
found in any first-elass dairy farm.
There is no need to spend time in ac-
climating Holsteins. They do we'll in
Russia ard equally as well in South Af-
RIGA or any climate in the world
} The milk of the FIolsteins is not quite
as rich as the milk of the Jerseys. But
it more than makes itup in the quantity.
A IIolstein COW at the international
agricultural extibitio'. at Amsterdam
from September Z. 1888, TO June Z, 1884,
produce 1923 pounds Of mills. The
record Of Pietartje II. for one year is
3o.1S3 pounds Of milk.
Mercedes Julipes Pieterje, COW I de-
velopcd myself, produced as a six-year-
old in an official seven-day test 90 pounds
and three ounces Of butter
Sadie Vol ConcorGia, the pre- ant
worlds Champion not alone among the
IIolsteins. but Of all breeds, produced in
en- official test in seven days COZ pounds
Of milk, which yielded 30 pounds and
! ten ounces Of butter This test was
made in New York state at the Cornell
experiment station il 1903. This COW
at the age of IL years sold for $4,000.
y calf from this splendid COW. ut the age
of fcur weeks. sold for $4,000
l'Eow Tho IIols:ein is not only a milk
producer W.1hoat an equal but she is a
beef producer as well We will COM
pe.s with the ShortharHs on the beef
production, ching the Jerseys would
never attempt The TJoistein is the
rraa!ca! cG1 econon ScaI breed Of cattle
for dw Cafted states. and it viii be
proven at tee test this summer"