Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1904-05-28
REMARKABLE CATTLE
HERD OF Ho1srErNs Al THE
WORLDS FAIR.
Are Out for Record-The Average
Weight Is 5000 Pounds-Won-
derful Milk Producers
Age of the Breed.

! Calmly chewing their cuds in COM
Portable stalls in model barn on the
worlds fair grounds at st. Louis are Is
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 evipced 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
we'll 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 Ho1steins 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 self.satisf1ed manner,
as though it were all over but the shout
ing.
The HoIsteins, 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 notified. 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 assimiIate her food and convert it
into milk. The mich COW is not bred
for the flesh.
ga good Ho1stein COW is never fat, +"
said Mr.. Won Heyne. "She is 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 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 I 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, ILL.,, near st. Louis, and have
kept them in training for year. 6
''When the HoIstein-Friesian asso-
citation decided to enter the contest /
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 frst-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 At
RIGA or any climate in the world.
'SThe 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 HoIstein COW at the international
agricultural exhibition at Amsterdam
from September z, 1883, to June Z, 1884
produced 1929 pounds of milk. Tht
record Of Pietertje II. for one year i!
30,182 pounds of milk.
Mercedes Julipes Pieterie, a COW de-
ve1oped myself, produced as six-year
oldin an official seven-day test 20 pound
and three ounces of butter.
"Sadie Voll Concordia, the presen
worlds champion, not alone among tn
Holsteins, but Of all breeds, produced i,
an official test in seven days GOT pound
, of milk, which yielded so pounds an
ten ounces of butter. This test wa
made in New York state at the Cornel
experiment station in 1903. This COY
. at the age of 10 years sold for $1,000
A calf from this splendid cow. at the ag
of four weeks, sold for $4,000.
''Now the Holstein is not only a mil
producer without an equal, but she is
beef producer as well. We will con
: pete with the Shorthorns on the bee
production, thing the Jerseys woul
= never attempt. The Holstein is til
r practical and economical breed of cattl
!, for the United States, and 1t will |
, proven at the test this summer"