The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-02-25
FARM ANIMALS.
Their Breeds and Types by r. L. fiongh-
ton, Secretary fiOlstein.Fresian As
sociation of America.
H0LSTEIN CATTLE.

dairymen because OF their ex-
treme profit making capacity and
are widely spread over Contlnen-
tai Europe. They are supposed
to have originated IN Holland,
where they have been bred for at
least 1000 years as dairy cattle.
The moist lowlands of Holland
produce abundant feed, and the
inherited skill of the Hollander
coming through many genera
tlons of people who have devoted
themselves entirely to the care of
cows, with a process of selec-
ton of the superior cattle, aided
by Government regulation as to
breeding, have produced the
most wonderful and useful breed
of the world.
The cattle breeders of other
countries have recognized this,
and have used the Holland COWS
in building up such well-known
races as the Ayrshire and Short
horn, while Continental Europe,
from the Arctic Circle down,
possesses offshoots of the Holland
breed, ,,all of which, under various
names, are uniformly animals of
a strong and vigorous character,
yielding largely of milk and fat
tening into profitable and excel
lent meat.
At several of the State expert.
ment stations in this country
much careful work has been done
to ascertain the qualities of the
Holsteln COW, and the results
have demonstrated beyond ques-
ton the large and profitable yield
of the Holstein as dairy COW.
The size of the breed is large.
The cows, properly reared, weigh
at maturity well toward 1,400
pounds, and average from 5000
to $4,000 pounds of milk, and 300
to $50 pounds of butter per year.
Bulletin No. rs of the Bureau of
Animal Industry reports under
title of Comparative Yields OF
Butter Fat, an average yield of
go pounds of fat per day for
Holstein cows, as against 1.36
pounds for Jerseys, and 1.42
pounds for Guernseys and Ayr
shlres. These figures are from
American and European analyses.
From a summary of American
analyses the Holsteln shows l.61
pounds, against 1.26 pounds for
the Jersey, 1.4l pounds for the
Guernsey and 10Y pounds for the
Ayrshire. The daily milk yield
is given as 4S.9 pounds for the
Holsteln, "a 5 pounds for the
Jersey, 2S.9 pounds for the
Guernsey and 27.7 pounds for
the Ayrshire.
One COW of the breed, Pietertje
I'd, yielded 30,318 pounds of milk
In one year; Princess of Wayne
yielded 29,008 pounds: Clothilde,
26,021 pounds; Echo, 28,775
pounds.
The quality of the milk, as re-
lated to butter fat, shows an
average of about IA per cent.
fat. The other solids are about
8 per cent, and are uniformly
present to this extent, making a
milk exceedingly desirable for
liquid consumption or for butter
or cheese production. 1t is a
milk which does not readily sep
arate It's fat as does that of breeds
whose milk characteristlcally
shows larger fat globules, and it
is. therefore, the best possible
milk for shipping purposes.
The greatest yields OF butter
I per COW have been made IN this
country and from Holstein cows.
kThe recently completed semi-of-
ticial test by representatives OF
the Wisconsin Experiment Sta
zion for one year of the Holsteln
Row, Colantha AS Johanna, is the
4 worlds record for all breeds and
ehows a yield In twelve consecu.
pve months of 998 26 pounds fat,
rom "a, ,432 pounds of milk; aver.
q age per cent. of fat in milk 8. AZ
This equivalent TO /, ,247. 50 pounds
of butter on so per cent. basis, or
LA less at 65.7 per cent.
The worlds largest record pre-