AS A GENERAL PURPOSE CATTLE. 



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direction for the largest profits. Vigorous cows can be fattened with compar- 

 ative ease, should anything occur to stop them from producing milk. If there 

 is a demand for veal, vigorous cows produce large and healthy calves. Vigor- 

 ous cows need comparatively little care, they make the most of their food and 

 quickly respond to generous feeding. Another characteristic of this breed by 

 which it has won popular favor, is its marked docility. Dairymen do not want 

 nervous cattle, all the fine-spun theories to the contrary. They want cattle 

 that will quietly feed under whatever circumstances they may be placed, and 

 then quietly digest their food. Nervous excitability is always a waster of the 

 elements of food that* go to make milk, butter and beef. Another of its pecu- 

 liarities is its ready adaptation to all sorts of climate. It is profitably used in 

 the climate of France and Italy, and at the same time in the climate of North- 

 ern Russia, under the Arctic Circle. It readily adapts itself to the conditions of 

 all localities where food is plenty, excepting extremely mountainous districts. 

 Its limbs are too light as compared with its weight of body for such districts. 



LUTSCKE, No. 8356 H. H. B. 



Imported. Winner of gold medal and $100 from the Holstein-Friesian Association of America in 1889 

 for best one day milk record at any fair; yield, 73 Ibs. 12 oz. First prize two-year-old at World's 

 Exposition, Amsterdam, in 1884. 



Nothing need be said here on its capacity to produce either milk or butter. 

 Reports of its records and its triumphs in competitions with other breeds are 

 constantly being published. Within fifteen years it has added more than one- 

 third to the popular idea of the amount of milk that a cow may be made to 

 produce, and the limit is probably not yet reached. In butter production it has 

 taken no secondary place. In veal production it is unequaled. Only in beef 

 production does it take a secondary position, yet by no means an unimportant 

 one. It materially assists in making up a balance on the right side of a dairy- 

 man's account. There is another fact in connection with this breed, in this 

 country, that should not be overlooked, which has had and will continue to 

 have much to do with its success. It is largely in the hands of clear-sighted, 

 energetic men. The leading breeders which give character and vitality to the 

 Holstein-Friesian Association of America are progressive and are constantly 

 improving their herds. They are breeding their cattle more and more to 

 symmetrical forms and constantly increasing the richness of the milk. In 

 these respects they have already far surpassed the Holland breeders. The pecu- 

 liar flexibility of the breed makes it susceptible to such improvements, and the 



