Rural School Leaflet. 



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LESSONS ON DAIRYING 

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Cows. — The beef type and the dairy type 



H, H. Wing 



Cattle are kept for two main purposes: for the production of milk 

 and for the production of beef. These two purposes make quite differ- 

 ent demands upon the vital energies of the animal. For this reason, by 

 selection through many generations of those animals on the one hand 



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Fig. 42. — The dairy type 



that are best developed for meat production, and of those on the other 

 that give the largest amount of milk, there have arisen two types more 

 or less distinct in form and certain other characters; one known as the 

 " beef form " or type, and the other known as the " milk form " or 

 type. 



It must not be supposed that these two types are entirely distinct 

 or separate, for the cows of the beef type always give some milk, and 



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