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and since then other higher records; also that Shadeland Boon, the dam of 

 Shadeland Boon 3d, has made various milk records, and last year made the 

 largest monthly butter record of any cow of any breed in the world, producing 

 125 Ibs. 12 oz. of butter in thirty-one consecutive days, and her milk being so 

 rich it required only 14.09 Ibs. of milk for a pound of butter for the whole time, 

 and for a portion of the time it took only 11.18 Ibs. of milk for one pound of 

 butter. In 1889 she milked nearly 100 pounds per day. 



To better appreciate these records it should be known that the highest 

 record for any two-year-old previous to the above by Shadeland Winnie and 

 Shadeland Bloom 4th, is 76 Ibs. 6 oz. and that Shadeland Boon 2d has averaged 

 oonsiderably more for several consecutive days than the highest single day by 

 any other cow. 



If some of our readers who may feel inclined to disparage the merits of 

 blooded animals, and who think they have a world beater of a cow of common 

 stock, will take the trouble to weigh the milk for a few days, then would they 

 better appreciate the cow that is able to produce 122 Ibs. 8 oz. in one day. Two 

 and one-sixth pounds is the estimated weight of one quart of milk, which 

 would make for Shadeland Boon 2d, over 56 quarts, or more than If bushels of 

 milk in one day. During these tests the Messrs. Powell thought it prudent in 

 order to avoid injury to her udder to have her milked three to five times a day. 



These records were all carefully made, were witnessed from time to time by 

 disinterested parties and have been duly attested, sworn to and authenticated. 



Of the great value of the Holstein-Friesian cow for milk there is most 

 abundant evidence. Our quotations from Hengerveld, Klippart, Hoxie and 

 others, in addition to many tests cited, amply demonstrate that no other breed 

 approaches this in ability to produce milk. 



American breeders for many years have demonstrated what the Holstein 

 cow can do, and the list of 7,000 public and private records in another part of 

 this work is cumulative testimony. Plain it is that the enterprise and energy of 

 American breeders have enabled them to exceed all foreign records, and it is 

 probable that the average production of the Holstein cow in America is in 

 advance of that reached in Holland. 



As an instance of consecutive performance extending over a period of ten 

 years the following experience of Messrs. T. G. Yeomans & Son, Walworth, 

 N. Y., with the famous cow, Princess of Wayne, is given in their own language 

 and as appeared in the Holstein-Friesian Register in March, 1891: ''We will give 

 our experience with our Holstein-Friesian cow Princess of Wayne 954, A. R. 

 2, extending over a period of ten years since the birth of her first calf in 1881, 

 during which time she has given us nice, vigorous healthy calves, and made five 

 very large yearly records. She was born May 14, 1878, and selected with her 

 dam, Queen of Wayne, in Holland by the senior member of the firm, as the best 

 representatives he could find of his idea of perfect dairy animals. She is such a 

 typical cow of this breed, and from the first has shown such remarkable quali- 

 ties that we think a brief narrative of her performances will be of interest to 

 many of our readers. 



" She dropped her first calf when two years and ten months old, and gave 57 

 Ibs. of milk in a day, 14,008 Ibs. 9 oz. in ten months and twenty days, and 

 dropped her next calf within one year. When ten months in milk she made 8 

 Ibs. of thoroughly worked butter in a week. In her five-year-old form she made 

 an average of 3 Ibs. 9 oz. of thoroughly worked butter per day for three consec- 

 utive days; 22 Ibs. oz. in a week, and 91 Ibs. f oz. in thirty days, placing her at 

 the time in the front as the greatest Holstein-Friesian butter cow of her age; 

 her milk record at this time was 80 Ibs. per day, 20.469 Ibs. 9 oz. in a year, which 

 has been excelled only by one cow, Echo. In her eight-year-old form Princess 

 gave in 11 months and 13 days, 20,56H Ibs. of milk, and dropped her next calf 

 13| months after the birth of her last one. In the next 11 months she gave 

 131,104 Ibs. 7 oz. of milk and dropped another calf in 12i months. From the birth 

 of this first calf to that of the third was 800 days, during 682 days of which time 

 she gave 41,665 Ibs. 15 oz., an average of over 52 Ibs. of milk per day for the 

 entire 800 days, or an average of 61 Ibs. \\ oz. for 682 days, the actual time of 

 the record. During these two seasons she was fed, milked and cared for the 

 same as the whole herd with which she ran, being milked three times per day, 

 not at equal intervals, and no effort was in any way made to crowd or force her 

 to make a large record. In fact no one was more surprised at the record than 

 ourselves, as we had not even footed up her record after the first four months 



