Milk and its products; a treatise upon the nature and qualities of dairy milk and the manufacture of butter and cheese . ancestors of the cattle ofthis breed ever came fromthe Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein, although the cattleof these districts, and someother Prussian provinces,are not greatly differentfrom what are known in the United States as Hol-stein cattle. The proper geographical name for thisbreed would undoubtedly be Dutch. Dutch farmershave long been noted for their thrift, and the man-ufacture of dairy products, particularly of cheese,has been an important industry in North Hollandfor
Milk and its products; a treatise upon the nature and qualities of dairy milk and the manufacture of butter and cheese . ancestors of the cattle ofthis breed ever came fromthe Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein, although the cattleof these districts, and someother Prussian provinces,are not greatly differentfrom what are known in the United States as Hol-stein cattle. The proper geographical name for thisbreed would undoubtedly be Dutch. Dutch farmershave long been noted for their thrift, and the man-ufacture of dairy products, particularly of cheese,has been an important industry in North Hollandfor very many years. The land is fertile and emi-nently suited to the production of grass, but it is high priced, since it is pro-tected from the encroach-ment of the sea by an exten-sive series of costly dykes^ Tife^^BH^M|f and embankments. I \ ^ ^W In order that the Dutch farmer may make dairyproducts profitable on suchhigh-priced land, he must Fig. 7c Holstein-Friesian bull. «« • j • i have a very efncient animal,and under these circumstances the Holstein cow hasbeen developed. The natural conservatism of the. 68 Milk and Its Products Dutch race has prevented the importation of animalsfrom other countries, and so the race has been keptpractically pure, some authorities say for as muchas two hundred and fifty years. The Dutch cattlehave been developed very largely upon grass in lux-uriant pastures in the summer time, and on hay,supplemented with very little grain, in the has resulted in developing an animal of largesize, capable, of yielding a large flow of milk, butmilk not very rich in fat, which is the prominentcharacteristic of this race of Holstein cattle are large in size, ranking well upwith the Shorthorn, Hereford and other beef are inclined to have straight bones, long^ faces,straight, sometimes rather long legs, and straightbacks. Many animals, however, have a distinct droopto the rump from the hip to the root of the tail,which br
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