Escutcheon of Flanders Class. 



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udder. They yield eighteen quarts of milk 

 for a period of eight months. 



The third order of tlie first class is 

 still smaller, and not quite so decided in 

 \ shape. It has also a semi-circular tuft be- 

 low the vulva of small size, of descending 

 hair, rather shining and of brighter color. 

 There is cither only one oval on the uddei, 

 or generally none. 



Cows of the third order yield sixteen 

 quarts, and milk for six months. 



The fourth 

 order of the 

 first class, 

 besides being still smaller, has narrower 

 thigh escutcheons, and lower down ; also the 

 tuft under the vulva is quite long, about five 

 or six inches,which sometimes make the ver- 

 tical escutcheon terminate in a fork. This 

 tuft has more lustre and is whiter than tlie 

 hair around it. There is also a thigh tuft of 

 half oval shape on the right of the escutch- 

 eon, about five inches high. 



Cows of the fourth order yield twelve 

 quarts a day, and milk five months. 



The Bastard Flanders have two marks 

 which distinguish them: 1. Some have on the 

 vertical escutcheon an oval tuft, about the 

 middle of it ; this tuft has descending hair, 

 is about three inches long and two inches 

 wide, and the lustre of the hair makes it ap- 

 pear as if it was whiter than that around it. 

 The larger the oval the sooner the milk will 

 fail, and the smaller it is the longer will she 

 milk. 2. Other Bastards of this class are 

 distinguished by the ascending and descend- 

 ing hair interfering with each other on the 

 outlines of the vertical escutcheon, looking 

 feathery, or bristling like the beard of wheat. 

 The skin is fine and reddish, but there is no 

 dandruff. The larger the escutcheon, and the finer the hair, the more 

 abundant the milk ; but when the hair is coarse, long, and thin, the yield 

 is small. Both kinds of Bastards of this class have every other appearance 

 of the best cows. And all Bastards of the first classes have the two ovals 

 on the udder. 



