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THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



The Holstein. FRIESAN OR DUTCH CATLLE. The great 

 excellence of this breed of cattle is that they combine, with ex- 

 cellent dairy qualities, large size, and a compact frame, capable 

 of making good beef. They are almost invariably black and 

 white, spotted, pied, or mottled in picturesque inequalities over 

 the body ; the horn is short, and the hair short, fine and silky. 



HOLSTEIN BULL-NETHERLAND PRINCE. 

 The property of Smiths and Powell, Syracuse, New York. 



While Dutch cattle, presumably of this breed, were brought 

 to this country as early as 1820-25, and other importations 

 were made between 1850 and 1860, it was not till subsequent 

 to the latter date that any herd of pure-bred Holsteins was es- 

 tablished, or that the merits of the breed became known. In 

 1861 Mr. W. W. Chenery, of Boston, Massachusetts, imported 

 a bull and four cows from the best dairy herds of North Hol- 

 land. The bull, at four years old, weighed 2,465 pounds, and 

 the cows averaged 1,325 pounds. One of these cows gave for 

 ten successive days an average of 74 47-100 pounds of milk, 

 and made, under a six days' test, 17 pounds 14 ounces of but- 

 ter nearly three pounds per day. As milk producers they 

 stand high; yearly records of 12,000 to 15,000 pounds of milk 

 are not rare, and 18,000 pounds have been reached. 



