34 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



The present day breeds of Dairy Cowb 

 owe their profitable production to a few 

 family strains, all on the sire side. A 

 striking example is to be found of the in- 

 fluence of the prepotent sire among the 

 "Holstein-Freisian" breed. In this breed, 

 only seven cows are on record as producing 

 forty pounds of butter in seven days. All 

 seven are descended from "Netherland 

 Prince." There are 41 cows, whose seven 

 day record is 35 pounds of butter. 39 of 

 these trace their ancestry to "Netherland 

 Prince." 100 cows of this strain have rec- 

 ords of 33 pounds, and 97 of them go back 

 to "Netherland Prince." 473 cows have 

 been able in a week to make the enviable 

 record of 30 pounds. 463 of them claim 

 "Netherland Prince" as a near or remote 

 ancestor. 



So far as the improvement of the breed 

 is concerned, the facts stated show that the 

 evolution largely centers around "Nether- 

 land Prince" and his get. Two other facts 

 should be remembered in the great change 

 which has been made in the productive 

 powers of the dairy cow by intelligent 



