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richness and beautifol color, but for a peculiarly sweet and 

 "nutty" flavor wliicli it possesses to a greater extent than any 

 other butter. This peculiarity is preserved in animals crossed 

 with the Brittany, even to the third and fourth generation, an 

 evidence of the antiquity and established qualities of the race. 

 The a"-ent who visited the district of Morbiharn to select two 

 lierds recently imported, saw cows of this race at Yannes, whose 

 milk yielded four pounds of butter a day for some days in suc- 

 cession. 



The Breton cow is small in stature, the average height being 

 only about thirty-six to forty inches. She is a perfect dairy cow 

 in miniature, with a remarkable symmetry of form, a short, fine, 

 clean head, with sharp outline, a small muzzle, a bright eye, 

 small ear, and slender horn. Her neck is thin, long and slender, 

 with a free crest and little dewlap. She has a- straight back 

 and prominent and well developed hind quarters. The ribs 

 are well arched, the chest wide and deep, showing abundant 

 room for the internal organs. The limbs are remarkably beau- 

 tiful, the legs short, the joints small and well defined, the hoof 

 small, dry and generally black. The skin is fine, soft, and yel- 

 low, the hair fine and curly, the color black and white. A few 

 are all Ijlack, and now and then a red and white one appears. 



This is the poor man's cow, the pet of small farms and scant 

 pastures, hardy, docile, living and yielding a good product longer 

 than most other races of domestic cattle, satisfied with little and 

 with that little coarse, willing to shirk for itself around the 

 house, or wherever she can find a morsel of food. She con- 

 tinues often till twelve or fifteen years of age to yield well, los- 

 ing only about a quarter of her greatest flow of milk at the 

 age of sixteen or eighteen years. The Brittany cow is worthy 

 of a high place in the butter dairy, either as a pure breed, espe- 

 cially in regions of short pasture and limited fertility, or as a 



