Definition of "holstein"

The farm bureau, through subscriptions from members, was able to give a holstein bull calf and a trio of fowls as prizes in a contest among the winners of the six districts.

1915, Floyd S. Barlow, Otsego County, in the Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, page 2173

For Sale—Three registered holstein cows. Due to freshen the first of Jan. February and March. Prices that will sell. Age three and five years. Eugene Gibson, Smyrna.

1919 January, in The Chenango County Farm Bureau News, volume 5, number 1, page 7