SELECTION OF MILK COWS. 401 



of a good milking family, or a Dutch, Ayrshire, or Alderney bull 

 upon them, a race of valuable hornless cows may be bred by 

 those who prefer them to a horned breed. To give an idea of 

 them, we have had a faithful portrait, of a good one, (on the 

 opposite page,) taken by our artist, which embodies the main 

 excellencies of her kind. 



This cow was taken, when in her highest flow of milk. The 

 plate shows her lean in flesh, and ragged in booe, but of good 

 frame, and when dried off, and well fed, capable of taking on a 

 round carcase of excellent flesh. She has the quiet, docile 

 expression, and the strong milk marks of a choice family cow, 

 and is a capital specimen, in her meek, shaggy appearance, of 

 what Englishmen call "a good poor man's cow;" but a rich man, 

 might well congratulate himself in the possession of one, so 

 abundant at the pail, and bounteous at the cheese vat or butter 

 churn. It is evident that, in this specimen, her food all goes to 

 milk. Cross such a cow with the right bull, and a heifer from 

 her would be "a gem of a cow" for either family, or dairy use. 



