284 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 



16,248.5 pounds ; per cent fat, 3.41 ; fat, 554.78 pounds. 

 One hundred and thirty-nine senior four-year-olds aver- 

 aged : milk, 15,167.6 pounds; per cent fat, 3.39; fat, 

 513.56 pounds. One hundred and sixty-three junior four- 

 year-olds averaged : 14,479.2 pounds milk ; per cent fat, 

 3.44; fat, 498.12 pounds. One hundred and seventy-five 

 senior three-year-olds averaged : milk, 13,841.9 ; per cent 

 fat, 3.41 ; fat, 471.77 pounds. One hundred and seventy- 

 six junior three-year averaged: milk, 13,445.8 pounds; 

 per cent, 3.46 ; fat, 465.43. Two hundred and four senior 

 two-year-olds averaged : milk, 13,029.6 pounds ; per cent 

 fat, 3.49 ; fat, 454.23 pounds. Four hundred and twenty- 

 eight junior two-year-olds averaged : milk, 12,^37.4 

 pounds; per cent fat, 3.43; fat, 417.79 pounds. This 

 herd of 1992 produced 28,610,589.6 pounds milk contain- 

 ing 980,755.54 pounds of butter-fat, thus showing an 

 average of 3.43 per cent fat. The average for each animal 

 was 14,362.7 pounds milk containing 492.34 pounds of 

 butter-fat, and showing an average of 3.43 per cent fat. 



Thirty-four Holstein-Friesian cows and heifers have 

 produced within a period of not exceeding 365 days in 

 excess of 850 pounds fat, which is several times the num- 

 ber of cows of all other breeds combined that have pro- 

 duced in excess of that amount of fat. The first and second 

 places in butter-fat production among cows of all breeds 

 is now held by Holstein-Friesian cows; Finderne Pride 

 Johanna Rue having produced 1176.47 pounds fat from 

 28,403.7 pounds milk, and Finderne Holingen Fayne 

 having produced 1116.05 pounds fat from 24,612.8 pounds 

 milk. The California cow Tilly Alcartra has exceeded 

 all other cows in milk production, having produced in 

 365 days 30,45 1.4 pounds milk containing 951.23 pounds. 

 Dozens of other Holstein-Friesian cows have produced 





