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giving milk up to the time of her next calving, and an extraor- 

 dinary good milker, both in quantity, and quality. She has none 

 of Guenon's scutcheon milk marks upon her. The hair on her 

 udder and twist all grows downward. 



EXPLANATORY ILLUSTRATIONS. 



We now present our readers with the plate of a good milk 

 cow, drawn for special illustration by our artist. She is not a 

 pure bred cow of any breed, although a strong dash of improved 

 foreign blood will be readily detected in her form. As described 

 by Mr. Haxton, we deem her a model for the dairy 



Plate 30. A model Horned Milk Cow. 



This cow yields a great flow of milk, and has only oeen dry, 

 or out of milk, three weeks in two years. 



There is still another kind of cow to which some people are 

 partial. She is of a polled, or hornless variety, of which many 

 are kept on Long Island, near the city of New York, in New 



