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the use of Holstein milk for infant feeding is due to the smaller 

 amount and the smaller proportionate amount of fat present 

 rather than to the small size of the fat globule. The milk of the 

 Holstein carries a comparatively higher amount of albumen to 

 casein. This fact may have a slight value in infant feeding. 

 Before the invention of the centrifugal cream separator the fact 

 that the Holstein fat globule was small rendered this breed 

 doubly handicapped in the matter of butter production, since 



Fig. 17. — Duchess Skylark Ormsby, the world's champion in butter fat production. 

 Record for one year: Milk, 27,761 pounds test, 4.34 per cent fat; butter fat, 1205.09 pounds, / 

 equivalent to 1507.36 pounds of 80 per cent butter. Developed and owned by John B. 

 Irwin, Minneapolis, Minn. 



the cream of Holstein milk cannot rise as promptly nor as com- 

 pletely as that on the Jersey or Guernsey milk. The lack of 

 color, too, is an item in some markets. Holstein milk is par- 

 ticularly devoid of the yellow color. The color of milk or 

 cream, however, is an exceedingly poor gauge of its richness and 

 is of no consequence in commercial butter or cheese making. 

 Cows of this breed have held for years the world's record for 

 butter production as well as for milk production. Taken in her 



