772 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



pulp, soaked with 25 pounds of water. She is fed 40 pounds of green 

 hay and silage and about 10 pounds of dry alfalfa. 



She is watered at 8 o'clock in the morning, 2 o'clock in the afternoon 

 and 10 o'clock at night, drinkin'g all she wants each time. During the 

 warm weather she is given shower baths daily, the number varying ac- 

 cording to the intensity of the heat. In clear weather she is allowed to 

 spend a part of the night exercising in the lot, but if a rain comes up 

 during the night she is hurried back into her stall. 



She spends most of her time lying on the sawdust-covered floor of her 

 stall, yet Josephine is a hard working animal according to statement of 

 one of her attendants. "See how fast she chews her cud," this attendant 

 said one day. "That is the way all hard working cows do. You cani 

 always tell a good milk producer by the way she chews her cud. Joe,, 

 as she is called around the barn, chews about two or three times as fast 

 as the ordinary cow." 



Josephine is never struck or allowed to be excited in any manner, 

 because any nervous shock causes a decrease in her milk production. 

 For example: On one occasion when the electricity which furnished 

 the power for her fans was shut off, leaving her to fight flies and suffer 

 the intense summer heat of Central Missouri, her milk flow decreased 

 from 96 pounds daily to 74 pounds daily — a decrease of 18 pounds or 

 2l^ gallons — which is as much as the average dairy cow's production. 



Her keepers claim that this championship race is a commercial, not 

 a fancy test. To prove this, it is shown that the former world's cham- 

 pion dairy cow had made her record after a rest of three years, while 

 Josephine's record is being made after doing her full duty as a dairy 

 cow in the University herd during the last 5i/2 years in raising five 

 calves. 



"Chief Josephine" is now eight years old. She is of the breed called 

 Holstein, otherwise known as Friesian or Holland. She is only about 

 three generations removed from the rich lowlands of Dykes and Wind- 

 mills in North Holland and Friesland, her ancestors having been 

 brought to the United States about thirty-six years ago. 



In color, she is black and white like the rest of her breed, the white 

 predominating in her particular case. Her udder is unusually large, 

 being long and extending well behind. Her teats and milk-veins are 

 very large and prominent. 



