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On the Fri.seo, IWirliiiyton and W'.ihash trains a car ol' Wva stdck, 

 including JMissouri Chief Josephine, tlic world famous IloJstcin cow, and 

 other animals owned by the ^Missouri Agricultural College, was carried. 

 The Holland Stock Farm also furnished several head of horses for the 

 Frisco train. While the object in taking all this stock on the trip was to 

 afford thousands of Missourians an opportunity to study the animals and 

 to better appreciate the value of such breeding, another purpose was also 

 served. Many who might not have been interested in either the seed 

 distribution or the lectures were reached through their desire to see the 

 stock. 



Missouri Cliief Josepiiine. 



It seems that everybody had heard of Josephine, the great cow with 

 a milk record of52 quarts (110.2 pounds) in one day, 49 quarts of milk 

 per day for one month, 17,009 pounds of milk in six months, and a com- 

 plete and continuous world's record for eleven months — a cow that has 

 given her weight in milk in fourteen days. Following the lectures, dur- 

 ing which time nobody was admitted to the exhibition car, the crowds, 

 with school cliildren and ladies in the lead, formed in line and passed 

 through the train at lively clip, professors or student attendants in 

 charge, telling briefly and over and over again the story of the stock. 

 Looking at the people as they crowded the cars one man said, "Well, agri- 

 culture has politics skinned a mile. 'Teddy,' Bill Bryan and Bill Taft 

 couldn't have the big crowds that cow is getting, and she doesn't blow 

 about it either." "Yes," replied the member of agricultural party to 



