The holstein-friesian 



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Registry, gave some very interesting information! relative to 

 production, and more especially concerning butter-fat records. 



To May i, 191 7, the Holstein-Friesian Association has entered 3750 bulls 

 and 52,500 cows in its Advanced Registry. . . . Last winter the cow Segis 

 Fayne Johanna produced in seven days 730.8 pounds milli and 40.546 pounds 

 fat, and the breed can show 22 cows with seven day production above 32 

 pounds fat. Half of the cows tested are heifers with first or second calves, 

 yet the seven day average for all ages shows 408 pounds milk containing 

 14.4 pounds fat. The average per cent of fat shown is 3.53. The long time 

 test was added to the system about seven years ago, and Duchess Skylark 

 Ormsby has shown 1205 pounds of fat from 27,761.7 pounds of milk in one 

 year. . . . The breed can show sixteen cows with production of more than 

 1000 pounds of fat in 365 days. There are 72 cows so far entered producing 

 more than 850 pounds of fat. 



In March, 19 19, the Canadian cow Rola Mercena DeKol 30313 

 beat Segis Fayne Johanna's record by producing 41.54 pounds 

 of fat in seven days and 160.27 pounds in thirty days. Up to 

 May 16, 19 1 8, there were thirty-five 40-pound cows reported. 

 Following are the leading butter-fat record cows of the breed for 

 three hundred and sixty-five days in semiofficial tests. 



Leading Semiofficial Yearly Holstein-Friesian Butter-Fat 



Records 



It is interesting to note that in 1890 Pauline Paul 2199 H. H.B. 

 was credited with a yearly record in private test of 1 1 5 3 pounds 

 1 5 1 ounces of salted butter, and for eighteen years no official 

 record equaled it by a dairy cow of any breed. Yet in 1911-1912 



''-Breeders' Gazette, July 19, 1917. 

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