190 DAIRYING. 



the making of the first quality butter for private family or 

 hotel use. He believed that on a whole the Guernseys 

 were more satisfactory for the dairy than any which in his 

 forty years' experience he had ever had. His cows had 

 good square udders, well set front and behind, teats of 

 good size and easy to grasp. 



The Herd Register is published by the American Guern- 

 sey Cattle Club, whose headquarters are at Peterboro, N. 

 H. The breeders of Guernseys have always been harmoni- 

 ous in letting their favorites win their way by their own 

 straightforward efforts in the dairy. By addressing the 

 Secretary of the Club at Peterboro, N. H., further informa* 

 tion will cheerfully be furnished. 



III. Holstein-Friesian Cattle. 



By S. HoxiE, Yorkville, N. Y., Supt. Advanced Registry Holstein- 

 Friesian Association of America. 



This is our American representative of the Lowland 

 race, native to the low, rich lands of Belgium, Holland, 

 and Northwestern Germany. Its origin is ascribed to the 

 Friesians — a tribe of people mentioned by Roman historians 

 before the opening of the Christian era as peaceable cattle- 

 breeders dwelling on the shores of the North Sea. The 

 present dairy-farmers of the provinces of North Holland 

 and Friesland are the lineal descendants of those cattle- 

 breeders, and they are to-day handling the same race upon 

 the same lands. These farmers are among the leading 

 dairymen of Europe. As evidence of this, Chambers' En- 

 cyclopedia* gives the export of butter from the province of 

 Friesland to England in 1874 as 266,041 cwt. The number 

 of cows owned in that province in 1879 was 144,802. As- 

 suming the same number in 1874, this export averages 205! 

 lbs. per cow; assuming the same number of acres of grass 

 lands, this export averages 117^ lbs. per acre. We have no 

 data of the home consumption or of the exports to other 

 countries. These combined must have been large, and, 



♦ Edinburgh and London edition, article " Friesland.'' 



