Agriculture .. . pounds of butter in seven days. Alvord states that her feed when givingher largest flow of milk was 28 pounds of grain per day, with beets and goodhay. She had access to water five or six times daily and was milked everyeight hours. The number of Holstein-Friesians in the United States is nowquite large. They rank next to Jerseys among the pure dairy breeds. The AX/.UAL HUSBAXDRY. 567 association of Holstein-Friesian breeders has pursued a most intelligent andenergetic course in its efforts to disseminate information, and in all ways topromote the improvement and the general i
Agriculture .. . pounds of butter in seven days. Alvord states that her feed when givingher largest flow of milk was 28 pounds of grain per day, with beets and goodhay. She had access to water five or six times daily and was milked everyeight hours. The number of Holstein-Friesians in the United States is nowquite large. They rank next to Jerseys among the pure dairy breeds. The AX/.UAL HUSBAXDRY. 567 association of Holstein-Friesian breeders has pursued a most intelligent andenergetic course in its efforts to disseminate information, and in all ways topromote the improvement and the general introduction of its favorite association was the first to establish a separate system of registry foranimals of proved excellence and quality,— the so-called system of ad-vanced registry. 570. Dutch Belted cattle—Dutch Belted cattle are with little doubtdescended from the same original, stock as the Holstein-Friesian. Theirnative country is Holland, and it has been claimed that in that countrv they. Fig. 1S1. Belted Ditch Bill, Dike of Ralph courtesy of H. E. AlvorJ, Chief Dairy Division, U. S. Dept. Agriculture. were kept for a long time almost exclusively by members of the royalfamily and the aristocracy. Like the Holstein-Friesians, these cattle areblack and white ; but the distribution of the color is quite different and veryunique and striking. There can be no doubt that, in the effort to fix thepeculiar markings, the animals of this breed were more closely bred than isusually desirable. Some of the more valuable and practical characteristicsappear to have been in a measure lost sight of. In size Dutch Beltedcattle rank about with Ayrshires. They are, however, rather longer in the 568 AGRICULTURE ; leg and somewhat less compact in form than the cattle of that breed. Thecolor is black with a band of white extending entirely around the belt of white differs in width, but it should not extend forward to theshoulder nor back to the hip. There mu
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