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HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE. 



of the first year until its close, and not even for thirty days of the second year 

 until its close, owing to the illness and absence of the member of our firm to 

 whom this work was allotted. 



" She has given during the past year 113 Ibs. 1 oz. of milk in a day, an aver- 

 age of 110 Ibs. 11 oz. for six consecutive days; 8,182 Ibs. 2 oz. in thirty days, and 

 29,008 Ibs. 11 oz. in one year, excelling by nearly three thousand pounds all 

 other records except that of Pietertje 2d. We did not expect to test her 

 especially for a large record till she had been in milk twenty -eight days, which 

 makes a difference of several hundred pounds loss in her record of the year. 

 Her butter record is 24 Ibs. 14 oz. thoroughly worked, salted butter in a week. 

 Since the birth of her first calf in 1881 she has given by actual weight of each 

 milking 164,310^ Ibs. of milk in ten years and twenty-five days, which is an 

 average of 16,319 Ibs. per year or 44^ Ibs. per day for the entire time including 





BOONSTRA, 2o, No. 732 H. H.-B. 

 Imported. Milk record, 78 Ibs. in one day; 2,160 Ibs. in thirty days. 



all the time she was dry. Princess after these ten years of hard work is in fine 

 condition, and to all appearances equal to another trial." 



The history of the wonderful record of the Holstein-Friesian cow, Pietertje 

 2d, is thus given by Mr. D. B. Whipple : 



" On visiting several herds of Holsteins in the New England states in Sep- 

 tember, 1884, I came across Pietertje 2d in Elizur Smith's herd at Lee, Mass., 

 he having purchased her soon after she was imported. After examining her 

 and seeing her milked, I was fully satisfied that she was capable of milking 

 more than any cow that I had ever seen milked, so I purchased her, together 

 with twelve others, and shipped them home to Cuba. Allegany Co., N. Y., 

 where she has remained ever since. With her persistent milking, and the low 

 condition she was in, I did not think it advisable to undertake to make a year's 

 record, although she milked 103| Ibs. after dropping her next calf. I then 

 delayed breeding ber, so there were twenty months elapsed between the births 



