j. VAN DER BREGGEN'S STATISTICS. 



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This list clearly proves how disadvantageous it is if we do not quite milk 

 out our cows, the last milk producing four times as much cream as the first. 

 The column for the specific weight, too, is very remarkable, because we see 

 from it that the first milk is the heaviest, and the last the lightest. The last is 

 even so light, by the large quantity of fat, that in some places this milk would 

 be considered as mixed with water, for it is known that there are towns where 

 the milk of a specific weight less than 1.028 is rejected. It is, therefore, advis- 

 able not only to judge the milk at that weight, but also to take the quantity of 

 fat into consideration. I think the great specific weight of the first milk is 

 caused by its richness in caseine, while the last is, most probably, poor in this 

 respect. 



Arrived at the end of the task I laid upon myself, I may have given little 

 that is unknown to our agriculturists (all statistics having been taken from 

 reviews), yet I hope to have contributed a little to attack the prejudice by 

 which the reputation of our stock is injured. 



CHAPTER IX. 



ACCLIMATION FLEXIBILITY. 



Undoubtedly every breed of cattle has its special adaptations and its 

 special field in which it is most profitable. There is no other breed, however, 

 that has such an extensive territory in which it is, or may be, especially 

 profitable as the Holstein-Friesian. This is shown by the spread and distribution 

 of breeds in Europe where there has been no artificial barriers against the 

 spread of breeds and no artificial attempts to stimulate distribution. The 

 Ayrshire breed is scarcely known outside the British Islands where it 

 originated, the Guernsey and the Jersey breeds are not found to any extent on 

 the continent although the island of Jersey lies in sight of the shore, and the 

 Shorthorn breed is limited to a few localities in Belgium. France, Germany and 

 perhaps some other states where it has been introduced by the government or 

 the nobility to test it. On the other hand the Holstein-Friesian breed, with its 

 offshoots under different names, is found everywhere the prevailing breed in 



CASTINE, No. 3795 H. H. B. 



Milk record, 74 Ibs. 8 oz. in one day; 2,898 Ibs. in thirty days. Butter record, 21 Ibs. in seven days 

 as three-year-old; 93 Ibs. 10 oz. in thirty days as four -year-old. 



