214 BRAHMIN (ZEBU) CATTLE. 



tion of a typical Brahmin ; but there can be no doubt as to their utility 

 in the region named. The cross improves the quali'ty of native beef, 

 and adds quantity by increasing si'ze. For the dairy, some of the cows 

 are said to be superior ; they give a large quantity of milk, but the 

 quality is rather deficient ; moreover, the wild nature of the animal is 

 liable to crop out in a variable and sometimes vicious temper. The 

 grades from good quiet cows, are of course more nearly free from this 

 objection, and in many places dairies of Brahmin grades are giving 

 good satisfaction. 



The previously published experience of Col. Peters is interesting 

 in this connection, and we quote : 



"The animals did excellent, and I thought I had solved the problem. They made 

 fine beef cattle wonderful and some of them were extraordinary milkers. I had one 

 grade Brahmin cow that gave 36 quarts of milk per day ; I exhibited her at the fairs, and 

 took premiums everywhere ; but I discovered that the milk lacked butter-making qualities. 

 * * * * And then the Brahmins were the most malevolent animals in the world, 

 with a distinctive aversion to women. I don't think I ever saw a Brahmin cow that a 

 woman could milk. * * * * I never knew one animal to die of murrain. They 

 made the best work oxen I ever raised." 



The place for the Bramins is on the Southern ranges, and the grade 

 bulls half bloods with which Mr. Albert Montgomery, of New 

 Orleans, and his partner, J. M. Frost, of Houston, Texas, are supplying 

 the market, find ready sale at good prices. Mr. Frost, writing to the 

 Author under date of July gth, 1888, says : 



"I defy any man to name the time when he ever saw a tick on either pure or 

 half-breeds, or a worm from the blow fly [screw worms]. Further than this, I defy 

 any man to say that he ever saw any of them to die from a severe winter. They are 

 the grandest cattle that exist for southern climates." 



The illustration represents the imported Brahmin bull Khedive, and 

 two of his grade offspring from native Texas cows property of the 

 gentlemen just mentioned and was engraved for our use from photo- 

 graphs taken in Houston, Texas. 



