PLATE III. 



(Page 31.) 



This plate is intended to answer the question: ""What is a good 

 cow ?■' It shows a model cow, without regard to breed, as described 

 in ^ 45, and a portrait of the " Oaks Cow," which was one of the 

 most remarkable of the early age of stock improvement as a great 

 butter producer. She gave 467 pounds from May 15 to December 

 20, 1816. Artother portrait gives the side view of what is taken 

 as a model of a good dairy cow. The Dutch dairy cow is also con- 

 sidered a model, not only of that breed, but of a form that shows 

 a good cow for milk. The Hereford cow and bull, and Devon cow 

 and bull, also give good studies, and make up a picture no where 

 else to be found in such compact form and such beauty of execu- 

 tioa. 



