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showing conclusively that she could easily have exceeded her 

 last unparalleled record. 



HOLSTEIN-FRESIAN AS BUTTER COWS. 



No other breed has ever advanced so rapidly to a foremost 

 position in this particular line of production. 



When first introduced into this country, on account of their 

 large yield, these cows naturally went into the hands of milk 

 producers, and it is only within the last six years that they have 

 attracted the attention of dairymenn as a valuable butter breed. - 

 Its growth in that short period has been like magic. It has 

 already attained a high position among the great butter breeds. 

 Long has the beautiful fawn of the Jersey isle borne the sceptre 

 of queen of the churn, but this stately Dutch maiden has already 

 shaken her throne and has won victories against great odds, in 

 point of numbers, and against public prejudice, which shows 

 that the crown is no longer worn with a sense of security. 



When Mercedes won the Breeder's Gazette challenge cup 

 from Mary Anne, of St. Lamberts, it was claimed by the friends 

 of the latter, and generally believed by the public that this great 

 cow was an accident; that she could not be duplicated in the 

 breed. When Tritonia won the prize in the " oil test " at Min- 

 neapolis it was because the little fairy " was nervous'' 



After the most noted and wealthy Jersey breeders and admirers 

 of the New England and middle states had planned and organ- 

 ized the great Madison Square Dairy Show, offering larger 

 prizes than had ever been awarded at any dairy show in 

 America, securing the presence of the best representatives from 

 nearly all the most noted Jersey and Guernsey herds in those 

 states, making, as a leading Jersey breeder stated at the time, 

 " the most remarkable collection of dairy cows ever seen in any 

 show on earth," and when Clothilde had won the great butter 

 prize, surpassing all competitors, excepting her 3-year-old 

 daughter, by over 29 per cent., a large majority of those in the 

 test being Jerseys, not until then— in fact, not until some time 



