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weighing over 1,300 pounds at the age of eighteen months, proved a magnificent 

 breeder. The cow Kero gave 14,000 Ibs. of milk in one year on common feed, 

 testing 4.4 Ibs. butter fat. 



The heifer Nettie Langspeen has never been defeated in the show ring since 

 owned by him, and she is now giving 25 Ibs. of milk daily, and has been milk- 

 ing eight months. 



In the same year, 1887, the neighboring farmers concluded that they 

 wanted a creamery built at Carthage, and erected one at the cost of $8,000, of 

 which Mr. Holdeman took two shares, and was selected to act as secretary and 

 manager. After starting, some of the patrons, especially the Jersey men, said 

 they could not afford to sell their rich milk for the same price Mr. Holdeman 

 was getting for his "blue Holstein" milk. 4 ' 



Mr. Holdeman had in the meantime traded for another herd of registered 

 cows, and was sending a big lot of the "blue milk" to the creamery. The 

 creamery patrons then purchased a Babcock test, and the butter maker was 

 instructed to test the "blue Holstein milk." but, to their great surprise, they 

 found the "blue milk" was second to none, testing as high as 5 per cent fat. 



In 1892 Mr. Holdeman made a sale on his farm, disposing of forty head of 

 registered and grade cows and heifers. The registered cattle averaged $83. 

 His present herd is not a large one, but of excellent quality, consisting of such 

 strains as Mechthilde, Kere, Parthenea and Mahomet. The milk is at present 

 sold on the retail market in Carthage for ten cents per gallon at the door. 



Mr. Holdeman finds the Holsteins very gentle and docile cattle, giving 

 plenty of good milk, and he does not have to feed them twelve months to get 

 milk six months of the time. The calves are large and strong, easily trained 

 to drink out of a bucket, and grow faster and larger than those of other breeds. 

 They give more millk, which makes more butter and cheese, than any other 

 breed which he has milked, including Shorthorns and Jerseys, of which latter 

 he thinks that, if he had them to keep, he would have to do so at a loss, and 

 thus concludes that the breed of cattle that an enterprising farmer should keep 

 is one that excels in the product of milk, butter, cheese and beef, and which 

 he states is most certainly the large black-and-white sort, called Holstein- 

 Friesian. 



MR. CHARLES HOUGHTON of Boston, Mass., the first secretary of The Associ- 

 ation of Breeders of Pure-bred Holstein Cattle and of the Holstein Breeders' 

 Association, died on May 18, 1891, at his residence in Brookline, Mass., at the 

 age of 70 years. He was born and reared upon a farm at Putney, Windham 

 county, Vermont, and was a thorough farmer and was known as the most 

 expert handler of live stock of all sorts in that section when a young man. 



He was a graduate of the famous old academy at Chester, Vt., and after- 

 wards studied law with Hon. E. W. Stoughton. He was admitted to the 

 Suffolk bar in Boston in 1856, and immediately entered into active practice, 

 which he continued up to the time of his sudden demise 



After several years in Boston he turned his attention more especially to 

 patent law, and was widely known from his connection with inventions relat- 

 ing to the manufacture of boots and shoes, particularly the famous McKay 

 sewing machine. Many other inventions of a highly important character were 

 by him brought out and placed before the public. He achieved great success 

 in his profession, and was highly esteemed in legal circles and socially. 



Having always retained the old homestead in Putney, he set about its 

 improvement and fitted it up in a practical manner and improved it in every 

 way, until it became known as one of the finest and model farms of New Eng- 

 land. 



He was intimately acquainted with the late W. W. Chenery of Belmont, 

 Mass., the pioneer importer and breeder of the Holstein-Friesian cattle, and 

 early recognizing their great value, made his first purchase and founded the 

 Houghton Farm herd in 1866. He was the first customer that Mr. Chenery 

 had, and therefore the second man in America to establish a herd of the famous 

 Dutch cattle, as they were then called. 



In 1871, in connection with Mr. Chenery, Mr. Thomas B. Wales, Mr. C. C. 

 Walworth and Mr. William A. Russell, he organized the Association of Breed- 

 ers of Thoroughbred Holstein Cattle, and became its secretary and treasurer, 

 thus starting the first record of purity of blood of this breed that the world 



