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it tests richer. The Holstein cow gives considerable more, but 

 it does not test so much. You have all undoubtedly heard of the 

 story how to tell a Holstein and how to tell a Jersey. You buy 

 a new pail, you put a bright silver dollar in the bottom of it, and 

 then milk the cow, and if she fills the pail and you can still see 

 the dollar, she is a Holstein. On the other hand, if you take this 

 same pail and put the dollar in the bottom of it, and milk the 

 cow, and she does not give enough to cover the dollar, she is a 

 Jersey. (Laughter.) That little story does show up to us, in a 

 measure, the difference between the Jersey and the Holstein cow. 



You will note in that cow that spare and angular body ; good 

 length of body. She is not now, I understand, in milk. She is 

 dry. You will note that the Holstein animal is considerably 

 larger than the Jersey, and as a breed they are larger. And, as 

 I have already stated, they give considerably more milk, but it is 

 not so rich. The question is asked, which is the best breed? 

 That I cannot tell you, any more than I can tell you what wife 

 a man ought to select. It is as the old Indian said : " If all 

 Indians thought alike, all Indians want my squaw." 



You will notice, in the Holstein animal, that she has a some- 

 what different head from that of a Jersey. She does not show 

 that highly developed nervous temperament that the Jersey cow 

 dees. 



We have had one of these animals (Jerseys) milked. I 

 want to call attention to this cow's udder, after she has been 

 milked out. The udder should be flabby, lie in folds, as one man 

 says, like a leather apron, and you can note that this cow's udder 

 milks down very nicely. You see here is a lot of loose skin, so 

 you see that the udder is entirely milked out, which shows an 

 animal that has a very nice udder, 



Air. Story (Displaying a well filled milk pail) : — Would 

 that milk cover a dollar? (Laughter.) The heifer gave about 

 15*/, and this is about the same, a little more. The old cow got 

 a little nervous getting down and did not milk as much as she 

 does at home. She does not like to be moved around. 



