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VOLUME XXX.—No. 11. 
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER, 1871. 
NEW SERIES—No. 298. 
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HOLSTEIN COW AND BULL.— Prize Animals AT THE New England Fair. — Drawn and Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
The Holstein cattle seem to have been 
strangely overlooked by our breeders, and it .is 
•only within a few years that they have ljiade 
an appearance at our fairs. The Holsteins, also 
known as the Dutch cattle, are pre-eminently 
dairy animals. They come from a country 
where the production of butter and cheese is a 
•leading feature of the agricultural industry, and 
"the animals have been bred with a view to the 
largest production of milk, though they are by 
no means, inferior as beef animals. The cow 
represented in our engraving is the “Maid of 
Opperdoes,” the property of Tlios. G. Wales, 
Esq., Framingham, Mass., and took the sweep- 
stakes prize at the New England Fair. The 
hull, “Amsterdam,” belongs to Chas. Houghton, 
Esq., Putney, Vt., and took the first premium 
for bulls. Mr. Allen gives an account of the 
performance of an imported Holstein cow,which 
in ten days gave an average of nearly 74j pounds 
of milk. The milk produced over 22 per cent 
of cream. Six days’ milk of this cow yielded 
17 lbs. 4 oz. of butter, or nearly three pounds 
per day. The grade animals are said to inherit 
the remarkable milking qualities of the breed. 
The colors of the Holsteins are pure jet black 
and clear white, variously pied and mottled. 
