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HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN 



paratively slow in maturing, however, thus postponing the time 

 of income somewhat longer than with the smaller breeds. 



Dairy Characteristics. — The Holsteins as a breed may be 

 said to produce the largest quantity of the leanest milk of any of 

 the breeds in America. Though the fat percentage is compara- 

 tively low, the fact that she yields such liberal quantities of 

 milk has made her an easy leader in the matter of total food 

 production and again very recently the leader of all the breeds 



Fig. 16. — King of the Pontiacs. Holsfcein bull, which at the age of ten years had 162 

 A.R.O. daughters. Developed and owned by Stevens Bros. Co., Liverpool, N.Y. 



in the quantity of fat produced in a year (Fig. 17). The table 

 given later in this chapter shows the milk and fat records of some 

 of the best representatives of the breed. 



Not only is the percentage of fat in the milk of the Holstein 

 rather less than that in other breeds, but the size of the fat 

 globule is slightly smaller. This fact has been stressed in the 

 matter of choice of milk for infant feeding (Fig. 130). Ithas 

 recently been shown, however, that the difference is so slight as 



to be all but negligible.^ 



The gTeat benefit to be derived from 



^Vermont Bui. No. 195, 1916. 



