The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1904-07-06
REMARKABLE CATTLE.
HERD OF HoLsTEINs AT THE
WORLDS FAIR.
Are Out for a Record-The Average
Weight Is 5000 Pounds-won-
derful Milk Producers
Age of the Breed.


Portable stalls in 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 Shorthorns, 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 no
equal.
"Yes," 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
uOl l4IlDdAt III ludl AEcls Dul Au4o NAAnO
it will be different. We are here to win
that prize" and the superintendent
leaned back in a self-satisfied manner,
as though it were all over but the shout
ing.
The Holsteins. said Mr. Won Heyne.
have been bred in Holland and the Erie
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 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 assimilate her food and convert it
into milk. The milch COW is not bred
for the flesh.
"a good Holstein COW is never fat"
said Mr.. Won Heyne. "She is a machine
for the manufacture of milk-not tall
low"
The first importation OF Holstein cat
tie to America was made in1621. Other
importauons 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 a herd. Since then many other
herds have been imported and there are
as many pure blood Holsteins in the
United States now as there are Jerseys.
while l confidently expect to tri-
umph over the Jerseys and all other
breeds here at the worlds fair, 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. H.. near st. Louis, and have
kept them in training for year.
when the Holstein-Friesian asso-
citation decided to enter the contest l
went out into one county in New York
State and bought some of the COWS.
| The remainder will come from Wiscon-
sin. They are Just good average, pure
blood Holsteins, the same as may be
found in any first-class dairy farm.
/ There is no need to spend time in &C
climating Holsteins They do well In
Russia and equally as well in South Az
RIGA or any climate in the world.
''The milk of the Holsteins is not quite
/ as rich as the milk of the Jerseys. But
it more than makes it up in the quantity.
A Holstein COW at the international
! agricultural exhibition at Amsterdam
from September Z, 1888. to June Z, 1884.
produced 1929 pounds of milk. The
record of Pietertje II. for one year is
301S2 pounds of milk.
Mercedes Julipes Pieterje. COW de-
veloped myself, produced as a six-year-
old in an official seven-day test 20 pounds
and three ounces of butter.
sadie Vol Concordia, the present
worlds champion, not alone among the
Holsteins, but of all breeds, produced in
an official test in seven days 697 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 in 1903. This COW
at the age of 10 years sold for $4,000.
A calf from this splendid COW, at the age
of four weeks. sold for $4,000.
''Now the Holstein is not only a milk
producer without an equal. but she is a
beef producer as well. We will COM
pete with the Shorthorns on the beef
production, a thing the Jerseys would
never attempt. The HOlstein is the
practical and economical breed Of cattle
for the United States, and It will be
proven at the test this summer"