160 BOARD OF AGRICULTURK. 



to pay. To pay she is exactly like a large factory, capable of turn- 

 ing out a large product. But a dead loss if only half run. Run her 

 to her full capacity, and feed her and she will respond. Then sell 

 the products at a price that will pay and you have the most profitable 

 milk machine possible. Is she a profitable butter cow? This is a 

 question upon which there seems to be some doubt in the minds of 

 many, while others claim that she also excels all other breeds in 

 butter as well as in milk production. I believe that it is a fact that 

 in public tests the Holstein-Friesiau cow stands at the head. 



In private tests she is also in the front rank. 



Aaggie 2d made 304 lbs. 5| oz. butter in ninety days. 



Albino 2d, made 25 lbs. 14^ oz. butter in seven days as a three- 

 3'ear-old. 



Netherlaud Princess 4th, made 21 lbs lOf oz. of butter in seven 

 days as a two-year-old. 



One firm advertize 100 cows that average 18 lbs. 17-100 oz. in 

 seven days ; sixty-two cows that average 20 lbs. 43-62 oz. in seven 

 days. 



Individual records are reported of over thirty pounds in seven days, 

 but it is useless to enumerate instances. Any one who will take 

 the trouble can find any amount of evidence to prove the butter 

 producing capacitN' of the Holstein. 



The fact seems to amount to about this : that by selection of those 

 cows that give an extra quality of milk as good a herd of butter 

 cows as any man could wish for may be had from Holstein-Friesian 

 cows. When crossed with the Jersey or Guernsej' (distinctively 

 butter breeds) a most excellent dairy animal is usually the result, 

 when grades are preferred to the pure breeds. As beef producers 

 the Holstein-Friesian is good. Not so good as the Shorthorn, Polled 

 Angus or Hereford, but vastly superior to an3' other dairj' breed of 

 cattle except the old dairy branch of Shorthorns. The}- have the 

 advantage of size and good form. The great mission of the Holstein- 

 Friesian cow may be summed up in the words, Gomhmation dairy 

 anivial — an animal capable of giving more milk than any other — of 

 making as much butter (or more) than any other, and when through 

 with their mission is convertible into a large quantity of good beef. 

 If there is another herd of cattle about which this or as much can be 

 said, I have vet to hear it. Or if there is a handsomer sight in the 

 bovine world than these same black and whites grazing upon ©ur 

 pastures and meadows in summer I have yet to see it. Or if there 



