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first milking season, one week giving nearly twenty-six and 

 three-fourths quarts of milk a day, and giving as much milk 

 in the sixth month after calving as in the first. We say that 

 it is a remarkable yield of milk for a heifer, and no good 

 judge of this stock can examine her and not feel confident 

 that she is just the animal to do that very thing. 



The bull "Elswout, 2d," sire "Elswout," dam "Susan," the 

 animal just described, was almost precisely like the sire, and 

 a fine animal. 



We cannot omit to say that we have been conversant with 

 Dutch, Dutch or Holstein, and Holstein, as shown by the 

 Holsteiu herd-book. There is a controversy going on be- 

 tween the owners of these cattle, one party claiming that 

 they are Holstein cattle, and that Holstein is the proper 

 name ; others, that they are Dutch or North Holland cattle, 

 and that Dutch is the only right name. If the testimony of 

 disinterested men, good judges of nearly all the breeds of 

 cattle prominently known in Europe, who have examined 

 them- in their native country can be relied upon, the whole 

 of them, Dutch, Dutch or Holstein, or pure Holstein, as 

 imported into this section of the country, are all one and the 

 same thing, and are the breed generally found in North Hol- 

 land, where there is no herd-book, and varying precisely as 

 cattle do with our farmers, one breeding better and more 

 carefully than another, and thereby obtaining better animals. 



It is no part of the duty of your committee to decide this 

 matter. We only give you what good judges say, and there- 

 fore we shall leave it for the consideration of the society, if" 

 they desire to consider it. We will close by repeating, that 

 crosses of the bulls of any of these cattle are valuable for 

 the milkman, where quantity is the principal object. 



For the Committee, 



John B. Moore. 



Statement of Tko?nas E. Whiting. 



I offer for competition for your society's premiums the 

 following : — 



Dutch bull "Elswout," four, years old last May; bred in 



