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selves, and who every year send down great droves of young 

 stock to Ilolstein, Mecklenburg, and Pomerania to supply the 

 dairies there with fine milch cows. On tolerably rich pastures 

 it gives a good quantity of milk, but it is accustomed to good 

 feed and less patient of rough usage than the cows from Jut- 

 land, which stood alongside, and which still show the marks 

 of relationship with the lowland or marsh races. 



The Jutland cow is rather small, often very small, and of a 

 fine bony structure. The rump is proportionally broad and 

 deep. Tlie prevailing color is black variegated, or black brown, 

 sometimes a sort of mouse color. It is used to rough keeping 

 and takes kindly to scanty fare, and so it is often sought after 

 by the small North German farmers, who happen to till hard 

 farms, as a valuable and hardy milch cow, while the oxen are 

 sent in great numbers down to the Schleswig and Holstein 

 marshes, where they easily fatten and make excellent beef. 



Fine specimens of all these races were on exhibition and 

 attracted considerable attention. 



Tiius far we have seen only what have been called the marsh, 

 or lowland races. If now we take a look at those mountain cat- 

 tle in the shed there yonder, we shall see another type whose 

 main features, like those already mentioned, are, no doubt, in 

 a great measure due to local circumstances, climate, soil, and 

 treatment. But the result has been an animal differing consid- 

 erably in structure and character from the races on the 

 marshes. The body is in general more close built, powerful, 

 well arched and rounded, low set ; the rump, for the most part, 

 rather higher ; the chest is broad, the neck thick and stout, 

 with strong dew-lap ; the head broad in proportion to length ; 

 the horns of proportional size, and mostly inclined to the side 

 and upwards. The color is not uniform, but the dark prevails. 

 In size and weight the different breeds or races, under this 

 class also differ widely. 



Some have sought to trace out the derivation of these' points 

 of difference in considerable detail, saying that the marsh races 

 get their long neck from the fact that they have to seek their 

 food on the plains. By the constant reaching forward on the 

 pasture, the head becomes longer and sharper, the horns take a 

 forward direction, and they grow higher on the leg. But the 

 highland or mountain races, climb the mountain in seeking 



