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duce more pounds of total solid matter in her milk than the other 

 breeds. Thus, any farmer keeping Holsteins would be able to 

 deliver to the factory more milk from which more condensed 

 milk can be made. 



Fourth, in very large dairies the milking must of necessity be 

 done either by a large number of hired men who are, as a class, 

 notorious for their unreliable habits and not particularly dis- 

 posed to be gentle in their manner or particular about the milk, or 



Fig. 18. 



-Sir Beets Cornucopia Netherland. A champion Holstein bull owned by W. S. 

 Moscrip, St. Paul, Minn. 



by the use of some milking machine. The mechanical milker is 

 an unsympathetic thing at best, but' the Holstein cows are very 

 docile and while not as responsive to caresses as are the Jersey 

 or Guernsey, they are not as resentful of coarse handling. 



Fifth, from the drift of affairs in the middle west and north- 

 west countries, as well as from a study of the cows themselves, 

 it seems evident that the Holstein is rather better adapted to the 

 needs and conditions of the general dairy farmer than any other 

 dairy breed. The man whose first interest is his fields is not 



