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The high percent of solids and comparatively low butter-fat, cause 

 many to urge Holstein milk as especially valuable as a perfect food for 

 invalids or children, of good substance and easily digested. 



The Holstein reaches full height at two and a half years, full breadth 

 and maturity at five. In Holland it is never allowed to live beyond seven 

 years, and is then fattened for market. Because it can thus be finished 

 as beef the breed is exceedingly popular in the United States. Holstein 

 calves are large at birth, grow rapidly and can be fattened quickly for 

 veal. The breed is excellent for grading up scrubs. They make good use 

 of some quite inferior feed stuffs and are noticeable for a general hardi- 

 ness and vitality under various conditions. To reach their greatest use- 

 fulness, the Holstein, like all good cattle, must be grown right on from 

 calf to finish and not allowed to get stunted. 



CHEATING "The stingy feeder cheats himself as well as the cow" 

 THE COW is homely philosophy. - If you have Holsteins, which are 

 a large breed, provide plenty of "raw material" for your 

 factory product. 



SOME HOLSTEIN De Kol Creamelle, one of the Holstein champions, 

 TOP-LINERS gave 26,684 pounds of milk in a year. In 1907 the 



World's champion butter cow, Colantha 4th's Jo- 

 hanna, gave 998^4 Ibs. of butter-fat in 27,432 pounds of milk. A new record 

 for the Holstein is Missouri Chief Josephine on the farm of the College 

 of Agriculture in the University of Missouri. Her record for six months 

 (1910) is 17,000.8 Ibs. -which is 1,458 

 Ibs. better than the record of Colantha 

 4th's Johanna. Her year record is 

 26,825 Ibs. of milk. Her butter test is 

 4.1 percent. She, gives more milk in 

 two months than most cows give in 

 a year. She produces just about her 

 own weight in milk every fortnight. 

 It costs about 77 cents per day to fire 

 her furnace with good wet feed, alfalfa 

 and corn silage. But she earns over 

 $4.00 per day on this ration. She's 

 only a dumb creature, but she is 

 worth as much to the world as the 

 average electrician or mechanic. 



In color Holsteins are black and 

 white not mixed, but colors sharply 

 defined, black spots on a white ground. 

 In this new champion Josephine, 

 white predominates, but head and 

 neck are spotted, with a few dabs of black on sides and tail. Pure bred 

 Holsteins have always pure white feet and white tassel on the tail. 



De Kol, Queen La Polka 2nd, (Holstein) She 

 gave 3,376 Ibs. milk in 30 days. 



THE GUERNSEY The Guernsey, formerly called the Alderney, is a 

 close cousin to the Jersey and comes from the islands 



of Guernsey and Alderney, in that same group of English isles of which 

 Jersey is the largest. The Guernsey resembles the Jersey in shape and 

 form, though somewhat larger and coarser, and in color tending to yellow- 

 ish, brownish, or reddish fawn, with white. Its hoofs are amber, and 



