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Vol. XLIII. No. 181 
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 22, 1884 
PRICE FIVE CENTS 
#2.00 PER YEAR. 
LKntered according to Act of Congress, la the year 1884 . by the Rural New-Yorker In the oflQce of the Librarian of Confess at Washington.] 
was Bontje Naatje, a cow which has given 80 
pounds 6 ounces of milk in a day. Aaggie 
Kathleen has given, this season, the first after 
importation, 0,5:25 pounds 8 ounces in seven 
months and five days, to November l. Aaggie 
Beauty (2007) Marijtje 2d I.N, H. B., 572), is 
very strongly Inbred in this blood. She 
stands in the water. She was sired by 
Jacob 2d (N. H. B. 56), the famous sire 
of Neptune and Aaggie 2d; he was 
a grandson of Hooker, the sire of Aaggie. 
Aaggie Beauty’s dam is Marijtje (N. H. B. 570), 
by Honker, She has a milk record of 80 
pounds 6 ounces In a day. Aaggie Beauty as 
a throe-year old, in Holland, gave 68 } £ pounds 
in a day. As u four-year old she guve, the 
first year after importation, 18,57.8 pounjj, 15 
of the trees, stands Aaggie Beauty 2d (2681), 
She is the daughter of Aaggie Beauty, and is 
also, ou her sire’s side, half-sister to Neptune 
and Aaggie 2d. As a two year-old, the first 
season after importation, she gave 0,642 
pounds 8 ounces of milk in 11 months and 7 
day?, and made 7 pounds 15T£ ounces of butter 
in one week She has given, thisseoson, as a 
three-year old, 7.708 pounds4 ounces In seven 
months aud six days to November 1 At the 
left, in the background, Is Aaggie Itosa (2005) 
—Wemeltien (N. 11. B., 328;, imported by her 
present owners in 1883. She was calved March 
15, 1873; her sire was Jacob (N. H. B., 20), 
son of Hooker. As a five year-old, in Hol- 
laud, she gave 01 pounds lu a day, and the 
following season, the first ufter importation. 
pounds 6 ounces in eleven months and eleven 
duys. She has given, this season, as a three 
year-old, 57 pounds 13 ounces in one day, and 
8,705 pounds 10 ounces iu six months and 16 
days to November 1st. This Is the dam of the 
calf iu the foreground, by Neptune. 
Among the noted milkers got, by the differ 
enfc sires of these cows wo mention the follow 
ing, taken from the last ‘ 1 Lukeside” catalogue. 
SOME REPRESENTATIVE MEMBERS OF 
THE AAGGIE FAMILY. 
he beautiful group which wo 
show on this page (Fig, 472) is 
from the pencil of our special 
Vartist, Mr. Cecil Palmer, and is 
/ fi/cVr ,l0t only his best effort, but the 
\ finest ami most life-like cattle 
piece we have yet seen. The 
‘££^1 original engraving, of which 
this is a reduced copy,is a mag¬ 
nificent picture 28 by 86 inches, and so life- 
Lhq. in Mm. In 1 year 
1 day. and 10 Sept. 28, ’84 
84% 18.001 IB-is 
16,275 
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MEMBERS OF THE AAGGIE FAMILY. Fig. 472. 
like that one can almost hear the “ lowing of 
the herd.” 
At the right stands Neptune (711), the only 
living son of Aaggie, and brother to the 
famous Aaggie 2d. He stands at the head of 
this family, and, jointly with several other 
noted bulls, at the head of the “ Lakeside 
Herd, ’ owned by Messrs Smiths & Powell, 
Syracuse, N. Y, 
Lying down, in the foreground, is Aaggie 
Kathleen (4492), imported by her present 
owners in 1883. She was sired by Jacob | N. H. 
B., 20), a half-brother to Aaggie, and her dam 
ounces, and made in one week 10 pounds 3 
ounces of batter. This season she has given 
6,301 pounds 11 ounces in six months and 26 
days to October 27. She was then shipped to 
Connecticut, where she is now owned. 
Ju 9 taboveheris Aaggie (001), (N. H.B , 148), 
made famous by her then unequaled milk 
record of 18,004 pounds 15 ounces iu a year. 
This record was not approached until after 
her daughter Aaggie 2d (1360), when only two 
years old,marie the unparalleled yearly record, 
for that age, of 17,746 pounds 2 ounces. Next 
behind Aaggie, browsing from tlie branches 
she gave 1,020 pounds 3 ounces in one month, 
and 16,156 pounds 10 ounces in a year. This 
season she has given 70 pounds in a day, and 
4,637 pounds 8 ounces in two months and 
eighteen days. 
The next in order is Aaggie May (2601) now 
three years old. Her sire was De Ruiter 
(N, H. B. 80) by Jacob 2d (N. H B. 56), and 
therefore, half brother to Neptune and Aaggie 
2d. Her dam was Blokker 2d (301 N. H. B.) 
and her g-dam Blokker (300 N. H. B.) by 
Rooker. Aaggie May gave, as a two-year- 
old, the first season after importation, 9,270 
Jacob 2d, sire of 
Aaggie 2d. 2 
Sarah. 4 
Hannah. 4 
Beauty. 1 
Belle. 4 
Idullne..,. .... 5 
Cora . 4 
Bonnie. 4 
Rom ad.,.,.... 4 
Anna. 3 
Beauty, 2d.... 3 
Isadora. 4 
Neptune, sire of 
2Egis 6 th... 2 
Music 2d. 2 
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17.746)6. 
3,009. 1 m.. 16 d. 
3,838%. 1m., 25 d. 
13,M3 13 16 
9,673% 11m. 
\t:> ui.l7d, 
7.9944,,. 5m., >2d. 
I,v.'54 k . r, ill., 12 d. 
6 367'.-Id ,3 in.. 15 d. 
5,V4ll-l«, im ,21 d. 
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7,85213-16, 9 m.. 6 d. 
44 9-16 8,937%, 9 in., 12 d. 
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