Rural School Leaflet 



1219 



VL 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 on the vital energies of the animal. For this reason, by 



Hereford. Beef type 



selection through many generations of those animals, on the one hand, 

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

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

 more or less distinct in form and in certain other characters, one known 

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

 type. 



