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the records in the back generations which give him his breeding 

 power. 



188. The records on the dam's side. — This pedigree shows 

 that this bull is out of a dam with a record of 33 pounds of butter 

 in seven days at five years of age and another record of 28 pounds 

 at 4 years. In the Holstein-Friesian breed a "thirty-pound cow" 

 is a cow with a record of thirty pounds of 80 per cent butter or 24 

 pounds of butter fat in seven days. Thirty-pound cows are con- 

 sidered good producing cows. The dam comes from a good line of 

 breeding with a sire who not only has many advanced registry 

 daughters but who was evidently an outstanding individual, as 

 evidenced in his show yard winnings in Oregon and Washington 

 fairs. Her dam, the maternal grandam of the bull under con- 

 sideration, had a record of 28 pounds and was a full sister of Belle 

 Josephine Ormsby, with a yearly record of 1127 pounds of butter. 



189. The records on the sire's side.— The sire of this bull 

 was Carnation King Sylvia, the only bull to sell for $106,000. He 

 gets his value from his dam, May Echo Sylvia, whose seven-day 

 record of 41.01 pounds of butter and 1005.8 pounds of milk is a 

 wonderful record. She also has five thirty-pound records. She 

 was the first cow to produce 150 pounds of milk in one day. 



Carnation King Sylvia gets further value from the fact that 

 his dam, May Echo Sylvia, is also his great grandam on his sire's 

 side because she is the dam of Avon Pontiac Echo, the sire of 

 King Echo Sylvia Johanna. In this way it is seen that he is 

 "line bred" from May Echo Sylvia. Also the dam of his sire has a 

 record of 37 pounds. Taken altogether it is seen that the records 

 on both sides of the pedigree are very fine. 



It was said of Carnation King Setske Segis at the sale that he 

 was "an excellent individual from a cow that is making a large 

 milk record." This pedigree and brief description will make it 

 plain how one should go about reading a pedigree. 



190. The value of advertising. — When one is buying a bull to 

 head his herd he should buy some advertising with him. We have 

 chosen this pedigree of Carnation King Setske Segis to illustrate 

 another point. Mr. A. C. Oosterhuis, member of the "true type" 



