CHAPTER XI 



THE LEADING DAIRY BREEDS 



We will now discuss briefly the leading breeds of dairy cattle and 

 something of the ideal already reached in each will be illustrated. 



The Holstein-Friesians 



This breed is the most popular breed of cattle for market milk 

 and is the largest breed in size and in numbers in the main dairy 

 states. In this breed it is well understood that size is a desirable 

 feature. Spring Brook Bess Burke 2d, 131387, page 14, illustrates 

 in a wonderful way size and capacity in this breed. Her yearly 

 record is 24,918.1 pounds of milk containing 1032.75 pounds of 

 butter fat. She held the record as the largest dairy cow in the world 

 for a time at a weight of 2225 pounds. In 1921 her granddaughter, 

 Wisconsin Fobes 5th, 370303 took her world's record away from her 

 when she attained a weight of 2240 pounds. This is the record 

 weight as it stands today. 



Glista Ernestine, 117999, page -50, shows remarkably fine develop- 

 ment in mature form. Her yearly record is 23,341.0 pounds of milk 

 containing 833.73 pounds of butter fat. She reached a weight of 

 about 1900 pounds. In 1922, July 3, Glista Ernestine dropped 

 her eleventh calf. Glista Ernestine is a world's record cow in that 

 she has made a seven-day record of over 24 pounds of butter fat 

 in each of seven different lactations. No other cow has done this. 

 Twenty-four pounds of butter fat is equivalent to 30 pounds of 

 butter, 80 per cent fat. Cows producing over 24 pounds of fat in 

 seven days are called " thirty-pound cows." Glista Ernestine has 

 produced an average of 100 pounds of milk a day for 100 consecu- 

 tive days in two different lactations. In one lactation she kept her 

 100-pound gait for 119 consecutive days. 



155. The best record Holsteins. — In order that our readers 

 may form an estimate of the ideal production among Holsteins, we 

 give the following records : Segis Pietertje Prospect, 221846, page 3, 



