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“Twenty-two Holland cows gave 78,100 quarts, or an average of 
3,550 quarts, or 9 73-100 quarts per day for the year. The largest 
milker gave G,142 quarts, the smallest 2,526 quarts. 
“ The average feed per head in the Winter was daily — 10 pounds Sum- 
mer straw, cut fine : 2 1-2 pounds oat and wheat chaff ; 25 pounds 
beets; 10 pounds hay; 8 pounds refuse malt from beer brewery; 3 
pounds ryo bran. This food is considered about equal to 42 9-10; 
pounds hay. 
“During the Summer the cows were fed daily per head 135 pouudn 
green fodder, viz., clover and vetches (of the latter very little was used), 
and three times a day 8 pounds of hay.” 
Feeding Qualities. 
“Although there is no doubt that the Holland cows eat more, gener- 
ally, than the smaller Ayrshire and Toudern (for the fodder was not 
weighed out for each animal separately), this is of minor importance in 
comparison with the greater amount of milk given by the former. The 
greater amount of feed consumed by the Holland cows can bo estimated, 
viz. : Nino of them stood at one crib, while ten of tho smaller stood at 
another of equal size ; the fodder was, however, divided the same in each. 
The proportion is as nine to ten, or when the smaller cows eat 45 pounds 
of hay, the larger ones eat 50 pounds. 
“From the quantity of milk given, the Holland cows used a trifle over 
5 pounds weight of hay to produce one quart of milk ; Breitenburg used 
6 25-100 pounds of hay ; Toudern 7 pounds of hay ; Ayrshire 9 pounds 
of hay. By these results it cannot remain doubtful which race is 
preferable.” 
Early Importations Retained Puro. 
“Le Roy, father and sou, should not have allowed their herd to become 
scattered and lost as a pure breed, when they subsequently turned atten- 
tion to the breeding of Short-Horns. That this was the fact is evident 
from the record, that at the sale of the farms of these gentlemen, after- 
ward, none but grades were found in the herd or in the adjacent country, 
“The first importation of animals that have been retained pure, wer® 
those of Mr. W. G. Chenery, near Boston, in 1861. This was ahull and 
four cows, which were successfully bred and kept pure. Mr. Chenery, 
previous to that time, in 1852, imported a single cow; in 1857 he made 
importations of a bull and two cows, and in 1859 a further importation of 
four more cows. With this latter importation he was so unfortunate aa 
to import pleuro-pncumonia. The ravages of this dread disease extended 
