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Banostine Belle DeKol 90441 produced 1058.34 pounds fat, or 

 an estimated record of 1322.9 pounds of butter. In May, 1919, 

 Mr. Gardner, superintendent of Advanced Registry tests of the 

 Holstein-Friesian Association of America, stated in Hoard's 

 Dairyman that twenty-six cows of the breed up to March had 

 records of producing over 1000 pounds of fat each within a year. 

 Holstein-Friesian milk for cheese is very extensively used in 

 Holland, where large quantities of Edam, Gouda, and other 

 cheeses are made and shipped all over the world. This milk 



contains a large per- 

 centage of solids not 

 fat and so makes a 

 very nutritious cheese, 

 though its food value 

 would be increased by 

 a greater percentage 

 of fat in the milk. 



Holstein-Friesians 

 as beef producers do 

 not rank well in Amer- 

 ica, any more than do 

 the other dairy breeds. 

 There is too much 

 waste in killing, with 

 too much bone and 

 intestinal fat. Young 

 Holsteins, however, make excellent veal, and the author has 

 rarely eaten veal in America equal to that commonly served in 

 hotels in Holland. In valuations placed on Holstein beef fed at 

 the Iowa State College, experts rated it eighth among nine breeds, 

 the Jersey coming last. Holstein-Friesians will gain in weight but 

 will not produce the desired quality of beef to suit the buyers. 



Holstein-Friesian families of prominence. The leading families 

 of the breed, as known to-day, trace back to cows of notable merit, 

 both as producers of milk and of offspring. There has been much 

 mixing or crossing of family lines, and one finds comparatively 

 little breeding that has been kept within a family. Branch or sub- 

 families also occur within the main family, some breeders especially 



Fig. 160. Banostine Belle DeKol 90441, a Holstein- 

 Friesian cow owned by Dimmick Brothers of 

 Ohio that made a world's record in 1911-1912 of 

 1058.34 pounds butter fat in three hundred and 

 sixty-five days. From photograph, by courtesy of 

 Dimmick Brothers 



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