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good shape; they too have done well, not one single animal has been reported 

 to me as having died from the effects of the climate." 



Mr. S. B. Howard, of Bonham, Texas, writes: "I bought, in 1887, a small 

 herd from B. B. Lord & Son, of New York, and at the same time Mr. Lord 

 shipped a few head for me to sell, numbering in all twenty-four head. Have 

 not lost one in acclimation nor has one failed to thrive. I also shipped, last 

 March, one year ago, two bulls which were bred to common Texas grade 

 Shorthorns, grade Jerseys and full-blood Shorthorns, ninety-six cows in all. 



"The calves dropped by these cows from the Holsteins give better satisfac- 

 tion, so far, than from any other breed that was ever shipped to this state. I 

 have a three-year-old cow, Sir Archibald's Orphe, No. 2603, H. F. H. B., that 

 commenced her milk record March 27; her largest day's yield is 66 Ibs.; her 

 yield for thirty days is 1,824^ Ibs. This is on dry feed, Texas prarie hay, cotton 

 seed, bran, corn and oats ground together." 



Mr. Jos. E. Miller, Belleville, 111., writes: "I have perhaps shipped as 

 many cattle south as any other western breeder, and my shipments have 

 been' scattered all the way from Georgia to the Rio Grande, not to speak 

 of Mexico, as cattle run no risk in acclimating on the highlands of that 

 country. The bulk of my shipments however have been to Texas. Have 

 also traveled considerably in that state, and met with many experienced cattle- 

 men, and also dealers who handle all breeds, and there seems to be a general 

 unanimity of opinion that the Holsteins acclimate there with less risk than 

 any other breed ever brought there. I have sent many there that did not take the 

 fever at all. In taking young animals and at the proper time of the year, 

 the risk is very slight indeed. To illustrate the faith that is in me, I will take 

 down one or two carloads of young things next fall to acclimate at my own 

 risk. Of young animals, have so far, as far as I have been able to learn, lost 

 only three head, and some of them, as I have been told, more through the care- 

 lessness of the owners than from any other cause. Last fall I shipped for 

 another party, thirteen head of Jerseys to Arkansas, nine of which succumbed 

 to the climate in a very short time," 



Mr. R. Howes Crump, of Masonville, Ont., in address before the Canadian 

 Holstein-Friesian Assn., delivered February 23, 1892, said: "The Holsteins 

 thrive as well and furnish equal milk records in Canada as they do in Holland." 



CHAPTER X. 



AS A BUTTER BREED FRIESLAND'S PRODUCTION AMERICAN EXPERIENCES: WELLS, 

 DUDLEY, YEOMANS, WALES, SMITHS & POWELL CO., POWELL BROS., M. E. 

 MOORE, DUTCHER, W. S. MORSE, G1LLETT & PON CLOTHILDE 2D PARTHE- 

 NEA's RECORD NATSEY SMITHS & POWELL'S HEIFERS PAULINE PAUL IOWA 

 STATION SMITHS & POWELL. 



A butter breed, according to the views of our Jersey friends, necessarily 

 gives a small quantity of milk. According to common sense views it is a breed 

 that produces a large quantity of butter. A Jersey cow gives 15 Ibs. of milk 

 from which one pound of butter is made, at the same time a Holstein-Friesian 

 cow gives 50 Ibs. of milk from which two pounds of equally good butter is made. 

 Which is entitled to the pre-eminence of being called a butter cow ? Common 

 sense would decide that it is the latter. A Jersey breeder would lead one to 

 infer that butter is not made to any great extent in Holland from the Holstein- 

 Friesian breed of cattle. It is an impression that many of our journals under 

 the dictation of Jersey breeders have labored to inculcate, and many honest 

 men have obtained. We do not have statistics of the total production of butter 

 in Holland, but we have of the amount of Holland butter imported into Great 

 Britain. 



In 1884, 124,924,128 Ibs. of butter from Holland was received at British 

 ports; from all other countries, including France at 57,126,008 Ibs., Denmark at 

 37,527,504 Ibs., Germany at 16,177,288 Ibs., Sweden at 11,404,064 Ibs., United 

 States at 11,231,472 Ibs., there was received 152,325,028 Ibs. In 1874 the province 

 of Friesland, where our breed of cattle are exclusively used, exported 29,796,- 

 592 Ibs. of butter, which was 23,782 Ibs. to every square mile of that province 



