HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE. 



The latter measured, a month after calving, five feet and seven inches in 

 circumference, while the girth around the largest part of the belly was eight 

 feet and six inches. The head, in size, is in due proportion to the body, and is 

 long rather than wide. The head back of the horns is broad, giving room for a 

 large brain. The neck is thin, fine, slightly drooping and moderately long. 

 The chine is remarkably open, giving a decided saw-like feeling to the back. 

 The withers are very sharp and thin, while the chest midway between the 

 brisket and the top of the shoulder is broad, giving ample room for the immense 

 lung power required in the digestion of the quantity of food which the cow 

 consumes. There is a decided droop in the back between a point one-third of 

 the distance from the top of the shoulders to the hip bone and the rise of the 

 pelvic arch. The ribs are open, and the distance from the last rib to the point 

 of the hip bone is fourteen inches. The hips and loin are fairly strong and 

 rounded. The height of the cow at the shoulder is four feet and ten inches; at 

 the hips five feet. The udder has a very long connection with the body, extend- 

 ing well up to the vulva behind, and a good distance in from, as is shown by 

 the photograph. There is a strong development of the umbilical region and 

 the milk veins are long and tortuous; ending without extension in large milk 

 wells. The thighs are somewhat thin, but not cathammed. Her skin is mellow 

 and unctuous. 



RECORDS For one day 106 75 Ibs. milk, 3.22 Ibs. fat. 



For seven days 726.25 Ibs. milk, 20.47 Ibs. fat. 



For thirty days, 2,985.50 Ibs. milk, 82. 16 Ibs. fat. 



For three hundred and fourteen days, 17,043.45 Ibs. milk, 469.31 Ibs. fat. 

 Average per cent of fat for year, 2.75; per week, 2 31 to 3.42. 



In disposition she is uniformly quiet, docile and motherly, an enormous 

 eater, never being off her feed, and not dainty in her appetite. 



Although the weather was extremely cold during the latter days of Febru- 

 ary and early March, which immediately succeeded the birth of her calf, she 

 was kept in the box stall shown in the cut without further protection from the 

 extreme cold than was afforded by the battened boards and loose door. When- 

 ever the days were pleasant and sunshiny she was allowed to exercise in the 

 barnyard, and visited the water trough for her water supply. Indeed, the 

 doors of her stall were frequently left open as the cow gave every evidence of 

 enjoyment of the keen and invigorating air. 



She was milked thrice daily, at 4.30 a. m., and 12.30, and again at 8.30 

 p. m., by the same milker. 



