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the making of the first quality butter for private family oi 

 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. 



HI. Holstein-Friesian Cattle. 



By Malcolm H. Gardner, Delavan, Wis., Supt. Advanced Registry 

 Holstein-Friesian Association of America. 



The cattle known in America as Holstcin-Fricsians belong to 

 the shorthorn, low-land race, native to the fertile lands of Europe 

 bordering on the North Sea; of which race, from the dairy stand- 

 point, the Holstein-Friesian family is the most highly developed. 

 These cattle might have been better named PYicsian, since 

 Friesland, and the neighboring provinces of Holland, is the 

 central home from which this breed of cattle has been so widely 

 disseminated over the (Ad World, and from which some 10,000 

 head of foundation stock has been brought to America. The 

 Friesian people are among the most conservative of the Ger- 

 manic race; still holding to and speaking among themselves the 

 old Friesian language, although also able to speak Dutch, the 

 official language of Holland. They have been equally conserva- 

 tive in holding to their ancient industry of cattle-rearing, an 

 occupation -for which their low-lying lands are especially fitted; 

 and as Tacitus speaks of them nearly 1900 years ago as cattle 

 breeders, paying a tribute in cattle and hides to the Roman 

 Empire, so we find them to-day making dairy husbandry their 

 main industry. Holding mainly to one occupation down through 

 the centuries, and passing the business from father to son, it 

 would be strange indeed if their breed of cattle did not reach a 

 very high degree of development; so it is in no way surprising 

 that we should find these Friesian dairymen possessed of a breed 



