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makes a most yalnable family cow, and has been bred for 

 tliis purpose for many years ; one in the author's dairy 

 has given twelve pounds of butter weekly regularly for 

 twenty-two weeks after calving, and then gradually de- 

 creased, until her product in the year was nearly four 

 hundred pounds. Several cows of this cross have given 

 two pounds a day through the summer season, and have 

 continued productive until within a few weeks of their 

 next calving. 



The North IIollaxd— Holstein, Friesian, Dutch, 

 and now called Holstein-Friesian as a compromise among 

 the breeders — is the largest milker existing, whole herds 

 having made a record of more than eighteen thousand 

 pounds of milk in a year. These cattle are brought 

 from Northern Holland, where they have been bred for 

 dairy use during many years, and where the pastures are 

 unsurpassed for luxuriance. A large number of these 

 cattle have been imported of late years into the 

 United States, and have become very popular. They 

 are black and white in color, of large size, handsome 

 form, with deep, capacious udders ; but, as may be easily 

 supposed, require very liberal feeding to enable them 

 to make the large yield of milk and butter which many 

 have done. The owners of herds of these cattle claim 

 that they are superior to any other breed in regard to 

 the product of milk and butter from an equivalent of 

 food; but as the friends of every other breed make tlie 

 same claim, it is not necessary to burden these pages with 

 the mass of figures which have been published to show 

 the remarkably large yields of some of these cows. For 

 the milk dairy they are certainly unsurpassed in point of 

 yield ; and they are rapidly becoming popular for cheese 

 and butter dairying. Not a small advantage of this breed 

 is that it is of very large size, equaling the Shorthorn 

 in this respect, and takes on flesh and fat easily, so that 

 the steers make good beef, and the cows may be turned 



