NORMANDIE CATTLE. 179 



DESCRIPTION AND CHARACTERISTICS. 



Color brown, roan and red or spotted varying considerably as to 

 marking, but never failing to preserve the brown stripes peculiar to the 

 breed, which have earned for them the term "brindled." The head is 

 long and coarse, with large mouth fit emblem of an enormous appetite. 

 The horn is irregular, commonly twisted and curved toward the fore- 

 head ; the body long and deep at the flank, with rather narrow hind 

 parts, showing an escutcheon well marked for milk. The legs are short 

 and the skin rather thick and heavy. 



The Normandie cow is classed as a combined milk and beef 

 animal, with tendency more towards milking excellence, especially in 

 the Cotentine strain of Normandies. In size they rank with the large 

 breeds, mature bulls weighing from 1,800 to 2,200 Ibs. , cows from 1,100 

 to 1,500 Ibs. The illustrations were re-engraved by permission from 

 lithographs made for the Department of State, and were originally from 

 photographs taken in France. 



