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HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN CATTLE. 



prizes in competition with Jersey cows for making the most butter in a stated 

 time, were at the Chicago Fat Stock Shows of 1885 and 1887, at the Ohio State 

 Fair in 1887, and the Minnesota State Fair of the same year. 



These tests have been public and open to the world. 



The famous Madison Square Garden Show, officially the New York Dairy 

 and Cattle Show of 1887, was a most sweeping Holstein triumph. First, second 

 and third prizes for quality of butter were awarded to this breed. The com- 

 petitive tests for amount of butter were easily won, though under some 

 disadvantages. It will be remembered that the Holstein-Friesian cows passed 

 almost the entire day in the show ring, yet began a victorious test thirty 

 minutes after returning to their stalls. 



The history of the Holstein-Friesian cow when placed in competition with 

 other breeds is most remarkable and satisfactory to her admirers. During the 

 period of years ranging from the time when public tests upon fair grounds were 

 looked upon with so much favor in 1886 and up to 1891, when such contests were 

 openly discouraged by the Association of Exhibitors of Live Stock, the Holstein- 

 Friesian cow was victorious as a butter producer in all sections of the country 

 where exhibited. In 1893 she was not present at the World's Columbian Exposi- 

 tion, from the failure of management of those having her interests in charge. 



But her absence at this great contest, regrettable as it was, took nothing 

 from her inherent qualities as a butter cow, and but little from her public 

 esteem. In the system of officially authenticated butter records established in 

 1894 by the Holstein-Friesian Association of America, a method was found 

 whereby unimpeachable tests could be conducted. 



Of the results of these tests which have annually been conducted since, 

 Mr. W. J. Gillett has made a most valuable comparison which we give in full: 



The Holstein-Friesian Association of America at its annual meeting in 

 March, 1894, for the purpose of stimulating and awakening breeders to a lively 

 interest in the Holstein Cow as a butter producing machine, passed the 

 following resolution : 



"Resolved, That the board of officers be authorized to offer not to exceed 

 $1,000 in prizes for authenticated weekly butter records made under the 

 supervision of the superintendent of Advanced Registry, or some inspector des- 

 ignated by him, or made under the direction of the officer of some experiment 

 station or state institution of some state ; such tests to be made on the basis of 



