Profitable dairying; a manual for farmers, dairymen and students . duals have a large frame and weigh from 1,000 to 1,400 are good feeders of roughage, and on account of this stand infavor with many farmers. The milk is not so rich as that of someother breeds, but what it lacks in quality is usually made up inquantity. The flow is, as a rule, exceedingly large and certain families ofthis breed produce milk testing per cent and over. The greatestrecord of any cow for the aniount of milk produced was that ofa Holstein-Friesian, viz., Pieterje Second. This remarkable animalproduce
Profitable dairying; a manual for farmers, dairymen and students . duals have a large frame and weigh from 1,000 to 1,400 are good feeders of roughage, and on account of this stand infavor with many farmers. The milk is not so rich as that of someother breeds, but what it lacks in quality is usually made up inquantity. The flow is, as a rule, exceedingly large and certain families ofthis breed produce milk testing per cent and over. The greatestrecord of any cow for the aniount of milk produced was that ofa Holstein-Friesian, viz., Pieterje Second. This remarkable animalproduced 30,3153^^ pounds of milk in one year. Cows of this breedhave been reported as producing as much as 122^^ pounds of milkper day. At the St. Louis Fair in 1904, fifteen Holstein-Friesiancows were entered in competition with Jerseys and other were milked for 120 days and averaged pounds each good Holstein-Friesian cow will produce six or seven thousandpounds of milk each year, if she is given proper care and treatment. PROFITABLE DAIRYING. Colantha 4ths Johanna A world famous Holstein-Friesian cow who produced in one year27, pounds milk testing per cent, yielding pounds butter fat. Courtesy of the J. Gillett, Rosendale, Wisconsin. Guernsey—This breed has become exceedingly popular withinthe last few years. Like the Jersey, they derive their name fromthe island on which they originated, which is another of the islands inthe British Channel. Members of this breed have larger frames thanthe Jerseys. They also have more vigorous constitutions and average1,050 pounds in weight. They are good milkers and their milk is ofa superior quality which tests well. This breed produces a butterfat which is distinctively yellow. In fact some of the butter producedfrom the milk of Guernsey cows and exhibited at a dairy conventionwas so yellow that it was believed by the judges to contain coloringmatter. The butter was accordingly analyzed and f
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