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1893 bought two carloads a first selection from the noted Maple wood 

 herd at Attica, N. Y., amongst them the noted bulls Parthenea's Sir Henry and 

 Sir Jewel Echo Mechtchilde; also, the famous cows Paladin, Cynthiana, Aaggie 

 Hopeful, Alexina, Carl Henry's Beatitude, and others. 



Mr. Benninger has made special personal efforts in fitting up a show herd 

 with remarkable success, winning over three-fourths of the premiums competed 

 for, and exhibiting at such fairs as Trenton, N. J.; Waverly, N. J.; Hagers- 

 town, Md.; Raleigh, N. C.; Syracuse, N. Y.; Bethlehem, Pa.; Atlanta Exposi- 

 tion and other fairs. 



Mr. Benninger has also had unusual success in selling bulls to beginners, 

 and finds it a great success to grade up other herds with Holstein bulls. He 

 had sold hundreds of bulls for that purpose without having a single complaint, 

 his customers being well satisfied with the cross. 



Mr. Benninger is also well known as a lecturer, being on the staff of the 

 Pennsylvania State Grange, and also lecturing at farmers' institutes, etc., and 

 is a member of the Holstein-Friesian Association of America. He also contrib- 

 utes articles on dairying, stock breeding, etc., to a number of the leading agri- 

 cultural and stock-breeding journals, and lately assumed editorial management 

 of the Breeders' Magazine, Dairyman and Horticulturist, published at High 

 Point, N. C. 



MR. H. F. W. BREUER of Charleston, South Carolina, was born on the 13th 

 of January, 1841, at Bederkesa, Hanover, Germany, and came to America with 

 his parents while quite young; located at Charleston, S. C., where he has 

 resided ever since, and engaged in mercantile business at an early age. Having 

 a natural fondness for cattle, as early as 1860 he established a dairy, which he 

 managed in conjunction with other business. For foundation stock, Mr. 

 Breuer first used Shorthorns of the Princess and Rose of Sharon families, 

 which proved good milkers, but with every new bull introduced it was found 

 that the beef characteristics would more and more predominate and the Short- 

 horns were replaced with Ayrshires, which gave good results. 



After visiting the land of his nativity on many occasions and observed and 

 admired the ideal Netherland or Friesian cow grazing on those enormously 

 rich pastures of the Netherlands, Mr. Breuer decided that this was the true 

 dairy cow and the cow of the future for our country. In 1877 he purchased his 

 first Holsteins from George E. Brown, and later on bought more foundation 

 stock from Messrs. Smiths & Powell, Edgar Huidekoper. S. L. Hoxie, T. B. 

 Wales, Hon. Gerrit S. Miller and others. In 1884 he purchased a tract of land 

 contain g 2000 acres in close proximity to the city of Charleston, S. C., where 

 was then established the Sea Side Herd of Holstein-Friesians and through 

 the use of the best bulls only that money could buy to head the herd, results 

 were obtained that far exceeded all expectations; many a cow in the Sea Side 

 Herd has given forty quarts of milk daily, of a quality that would compare 

 favorably with any breed, and the average of the herd is about ten quarts of 

 milk to one pound of butter. 



S. BURCHARD of Hamilton, N. Y. Sylvester Burchard was born September 

 17, 1834, at Remsen, Oneida county, New York. He came of sturdy New Eng- 

 land stock. His father, Sylvester Burchard, Sr., moved from Granby, Mass., 

 with his parents when sixteen years of age. Jabes Burchard, the grandfather, 

 settled upon the old Baron Stuben farm in the town of Stuben. 



Sylvester Burchard, Sr., was the village blacksmith of Remsen until the 

 year 1840; he then moved with his wfe, Anna Platt Burchard, and his family 

 on the farm in the town of Eaton, Madison county, which he owned and occu- 

 pied until his death in 1853. 



Sylvester Burchard, Sr., established the first large dairy in Madison county. 

 His pride was the old red Durham stock, and his cows were bred from a sire 

 brought from Kentucky. He was an expert judge of dairy cows, and his dairy 

 was the pride of the county. 



Sylvester Burchard, the subject of this sketch, was proud of his father's 

 stock, and his first work on the farm consisted of driving the cows to and from 

 the pasture, and in assisting his father in those numberless little things which 

 distinguish the successful dairyman. 



Upon the death of the father, the son, then eighteen years of age, under- 



