206 DAIRYING. 



cattle before. This herd was sold and exported to a wealthy 

 resident of the City of Mexico, where they are now kept 

 and are doing well in that congenial climate. There is an 

 association of breeders of these cattle known as the Dutch 

 Belted Cattle Association of America, who have adopted a 

 high standard of excellence, requiring breeders to breed 

 typical animals of correct markings, thereby gaining 

 uniformity and correctness of type. The association issues 

 a herd-book,_of which vol. 4, of recent issue, is the last 

 number. 



IX. Brown-Swiss Cattle. 



By N. S. Fish, Groton, Conn., Secretary Brown-Swiss Cattle Breeders' 

 Association. 



Brown-Swiss cattle were first imported into this coun- 

 try by Mr. Henry M. Clarke of Belmont, Mas"^., in 1869. 

 He imported seven cows and one bull; since then there 

 have been several importations. Most of the animals 

 have come from the famed Canton of Schwyz, and the 

 adjacent Cantons of Zug, Uri, and Unterwalden. The Rigi 

 mountains, covered to their tops with fine, rich herbage, lie 

 here, and some of the finest breeds of cattle in the whole 

 country are here produced, the cattle grazing in the valley 

 in winter and on the mountains in summer. 



The United States consul at Zurich in i8S2made a report 

 to our government of the cattle and dairy interest of 

 Switzerland. He w^rites: " For a hundred years Switzer- 

 land has been famous for the production of its dairies. At 

 the cattle show of Paris, 1878, every Swiss cow exhibited 

 bore away a prize in competition with exhibits from Hol- 

 land, England, Denmark, and other famous cattle countries. 



The Brown-Swiss cattle are fed on grass or hay only 

 the year through. A fair average for cows in Canton 

 Zurich is ten quarts of milk per day the milking-year 

 through; in Schwyz and Zug the average is but little 

 less." 



The consul of St. Gall says: "When a farmer in Ger- 

 many, Italy, or France wishes to improve his breed, he 



