MANAGEMENT OF DAIRY WORK ON THE LARGE 

 ESTATE OF BILTMORE FARMS. 



GOLDEN ROSEBAY CALLED "A QUEEN AMONG COWS "HIGH BREEDING 

 OF OTHERS OF THE DAIRY HERD. 



Biltmore, N. C. 



Among the famous dairies maintained by American capitalists, probably 

 that of George W. Vanderbilt at Biltmore, N. C., known as Biltmore Farms, 

 is the most extensive and unique in its appointments. This vast estate 

 within a few miles of Asheville is said to contain 168 square miles, on which 

 dairying and other farm industries are carried on chiefly for the interesting 

 occupation the management of them affords, but with full regard to satis- 

 factory returns from every source. 



A herd of several hundred Jersey cows is kept for milking and the milk 

 retailed in surrounding cities from wagons belonging to the farms. Naturally 

 in a herd of this nature there are many famous dairy animals, one of which 

 Golden Rosebay 157333 has received especial commendation at the hands 

 of cattle experts. 



At the 1901 sale of imported Jersey cattle held by T. S. Cooper of Coop- 

 ersburg, Pennsylvania, Golden Rosebay was called the "queen among the 

 cows" and proved her title by topping the sale at the price of $2,775, Bilt- 

 more Farms being the purchaser. 



The picture shows her in her five year old form, as she looked on the day 

 of sale, and where she won praise for her beauty, capacity and disposition, 

 thus reviewed by a correspondent: 



"The honor of 'queen among the cows' was early conceded to Golden 

 Rosebay, the daughter of Golden Lad that caught everybody's eye and was 

 the center of a critical throng all day. ' Perfection ' was the almost unani- 

 'mous distinction accorded her, and by the time she entered the ring she had 

 been so thoroughly inspected, so completely looked at, felt and fondled; 

 so metaphorically turned upside down and inside out and sized up, that a 

 less phlegmatic constitution would have gone to pieces in the nerves. But 

 Golden Rosebay urbanely submitted to all the pulling of hide and rubbing 

 of udder, and took so kindly to the excursion trips of various sets of fingers 

 up one milk vein and down the other, with stop-overs at teats and milk 



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