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Show 1 The Greatest xMilk Producer in the World tfM- jK .NKof the oldest and most ralunblcl Wm of a11 d!liry brcpjs ot ca;lIc 5s lbc h ZM Holstein-Fresian, that strongly marked, i beautiful animal of North Holland aud , Wk Fricbland. Interest in .this breed is , SB becoming marked at this time and many ( -B admirers of Jerseys, Guernseys, Ayr- &m shires, Uevons, Dutch Belted, foiled H Durhnuis, lied Tolls and Shorthorns are -m turning their attention !o tlie stroiily H inaiked black .mil white lioIstoinV, Tl"", IB breed is 'nolcd for large frame, strong WM bone, aburd.ince of flesh, s'ilken fc.it. ci- K irenie ducilily and lrgo ."le,,J of milk-Hr milk-Hr Abor.I two year ago Josephine, a Ilol- 15) ' tdii dairy cow uwued Ly the agricultural MF Ci,li gc of thc Unl verity of .Missouri. 511 tool. I he world's luilk record fromj fti Jolm.ina, a IIofl.iu.1 dairy cow owned by , im J W. l.illell. of Kowudalc. W'i. Jolian-j I i;u n-t jrd tor bis iiiuiilli totalled -..541 ltUuii.l f mil" J,MMtf,a ,0Ial for 3 JoluiiiiA'- ! "-'1'-' "i0mli '" hvr "AT V IK was -'.7a'o piiuiid. .li-aiurft Jo.-ephinea B h. ii ii. rk for ""- "'''1' of -ali,, l,ouuih $m 'uhii.i Sci.lt. -M. lloIarrin-l'resiaB. m cow own.d U Kcnwnl Mtfjer. of l'n.-j Sm jrlK.. .. J.. Iia been ubjecied to n e$: . jM tti'4.Ji if- mW o nif demoutniied thai tm s u ., ue lut dniry to" l"1' world. e-, :S !,'l.n- .'l l'teiou rwonlp In thinr JV is :u I reduced l',WU.U pounds of milk JB and H'l-7 lonut,!i of uutler- Thcre w""' UiP-i- roiesu iu cuiiuactiun with llicw JQS riricnX rthlcJl ,iau ,"-e C0W VTa3 ll"Ut'r M C0L-'iuui waich day and ulglu "d by m diaca-ut Runprjfr . Among: those who welched the cow was l'rofcssor Alfred S. Cook, of the New Jersey lSxpcriment Station, who saw the cow jrivc twenty -six pounds of milk six hours after a first milkiur. The milk also ics:ed 4.70 per cent butter fat- V. 1) Goldinj, of tho New Jersey l'rperiment Station, was in chaijxe of the lus. Definite records exist of several impor- and at the same time are dainty about i their food. To ihrie best llii'j mut have nn abundance of rich food. Thp cows yield milk In proportion iu tbuir size. 1 They are fa mom as great milk producers. Records nre numerous of cows m? nu acrn?e about their own lic weight in milk monthly for ten or twehe consecutive consecu-tive iionili!t, and there i r- uuuiurous au-. I i ; I Valdcssa Scolt, Second Greatest Dairy Cow. tatiouu of thl breed prior lo ls"0. Ii Is . bvlificd that he i-nr!. Duleh elt:er hrunsht soin here iu the M'ventecntli cen-' tur. The credit of Introducing ikU bru'd 'here nad umintaluius it purity is ac- ' n.rded to Wuiihrop W. Cheuery, of .Mas. 'ucliuetix Tbrrt importations witci made by him prior to JSG'J; other importu-i Sions oon followed.,' They have increned, rnpldlj by Imporla lions and by breeding and ure uow Ij be found in nearly every State in the Union. These animals are very Jjipm feeders thentic instanccn of dally yields of oue hundred pound- or raoiv fur several da3 In succession, mid from twenty thousand to twenty-five thoiisam1 pounds of milk iu one year. j Cows shin? from forly to ijlxty pounds of milk n day (five to seven u'ollonal ure I i regarded as :iver8;e animate, T.oOO to' i',000 pounds a jeur beiug the dejienduble, herd iivi'use. They have fronuentJy made' from fifieeuto twnij-Hve poinds or but-jur but-jur a '! nd thirty pounds iu a few lustunccs, |