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record of 112 pounds 7 ounces of milk in a day, with an un- 

 official record of 30,3181 pounds of milk in a year. Pietertje 

 2d was the dam of Pietertje 3d 11244 and Pietertje 4th 11245, 

 and, Hke their dam, great milkers. The Pietertje family, not- 

 withstanding its heavy milking inheritance, did not attain the 

 most widespread popularity, due perhaps to some extent to the 



Fig. 162. Spring Brook Bess Burke 98734, one of the great Holstein-Friesian 

 dams. She has a record of 25,227 pounds milk and 1094.16 pounds of 80 per cent 

 butter and has three daughters with records of above 33 pounds of 80 per cent 

 estimated butter in seven days and 1000 pounds in one year. From photograph, 

 by courtesy of the owners, the E. C. Schroeder Farms, Moorhead, Minnesota 



low per cent of fat in the milk, although Pietertje blood 

 blended well with the DeKols and others rich in fat production. 

 The Pauline Paul family descends from Pauline Paul 2199 

 H. H. B., calved in 1882 and owned by J. B. Dutcher & Son 

 of New York. This cow was sired by Climax 204 H. H. B., and 

 her dam was Johanna Paul 677 H. H. B., credited with 70 pounds 

 of milk in one day. For years Pauline Paul was the wonder cow 

 of the world because in three hundred and sixty-five days she 

 made the unofficial record of 18,699 pounds of milk, from which 

 was churned 1153 pounds i5f ounces of butter. Pauline Paul 

 secured her greatest fame through a son, Paul DeKol 14634, 



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