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has the largest yearly milk production, 37,381.4 pounds of milk 

 in one year, an average of 102.4 pounds per day. Agassiz Segis 

 May Echo, 41302 (Canadian Herd Book), page 54, is the holder 

 of the world's record in butter fat production for all ages and breeds. 

 She produced in 365 days, 30,886 pounds of milk containing 1345 

 pounds of butter fat. DeKol Plus Segis Dixie, 25787 (Canadian 

 Herd Book), shown on page 87, will probably finish a record in 1923 

 that will be the world's record in fat production for all ages and 

 herds. Her record (June, 1923) is 32,632.8 pounds milk, 1151.48 

 pounds butter fat. 



156. The production of grade Holsteins. — The publication 

 of these world's records may seem to be out of place in this book 

 when we expect that most of our readers will not have world-record 

 cows. They are printed with the idea that each one of us must 

 have his ideal and we cannot form the right ambition and ideal 

 unless we have something concrete to go by. 



It should be the ambition of every dairyman owning Holstein 

 cattle to get the average production of his herd to 10,000 pounds of 

 milk per year. Better breeding, better bulls, careful selection, care- 

 ful buying and better feeding will do it in time. These wonderful 

 world's records show that three times this may be accomplished. 



157. The best Holstein type. — The Holstein-Friesian Associa- 

 tion of America, through its " true-type" Committee, W. S. Mos- 

 crip, W. W. Stevens, R. E. Haeger, H. H. Kildee, T. E. Elder, 

 W. H. Standish, A. C. Oosterhuis, Axel Hansen and Fred Pabst, 

 has done a most excellent piece of work in standardizing the type 

 of Holstein-Friesian cattle by means of painting and sculpture. 

 We show pictures on pages 100 and 101 of the ideal type of bull and 

 cow as visualized by a skillful artist under the direction of this 

 committee. 



The pictures of Minerva Beets, 85791, page 95, the only cow 

 five times champion at the National Dairy Show, of Segis Pietertje 

 Prospect, Agassiz Segis May Echo, of Spring Brook Bess Burke 2d, 

 and of Glista Ernestine give us an idea of the possibilities in this 

 great breed of cattle as living representatives of the type that also 

 leads in production. 



