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Word: friesians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship their bulls to South America on a loan basis. Owners of the best bulls, in fact, generally refuse to ship their prizes anywhere at all, demand that the cows be brought to them. Nevertheless for many months Argentine cattlemen have had their eyes on two fine Holstein-Friesian bulls at the U. S. Department of Agriculture station in Beltsville, Md.: Chief Piebe Ormsby Burke and Double Gerber Colantha Hero, both renowned for transmitting high milk and butterfat productivity to their female offspring. Last July an attache of the Argentine Embassy in Washington approached Roy Ralph Graves of the Beltsville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 6,000 Miles | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...Holstein-Friesian World Lacona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1936 | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...TIME-readers who are breeding pure bred dairy cattle-and there are many-were especially pleased to see the picture of the new champion milk and butter fat producer, Carnation Ormsby Butter King, and the story of her significant performance in your Business & Finance section of Feb. 24. Holstein-Friesian >reeders of course, were particularly jubilant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1936 | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...Manhattan's swank Park Lane Hotel one noon last week rolled a truck bearing two pure-bred Holstein-Friesian cows named Nysia Maggie Titanic de Kol and Nysia Maid Gertrude. Two white-robed attendants tethered them in fresh hay in the hotel's garden, then painstakingly inspected their gleaming hides & hoofs for specks of dirt. To make news for a charity benefit the two Nysias were that night to be milked by Manhattan's lushest debutantes. First prize: silver cigaret & vanity case. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon the more serious girls arrived to inspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Milkers | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

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