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is provided with a strong dewlap, while the formation of the 

 hind-quarters indicates a relationship with the Simmenthaler 

 cow, with which it has been more or less crossed. It is excellent 

 for the yoke and for beef, but in milking qualities only middling. 



The Swabian-Limburg breed is also considerably spread in 

 some parts of Wiirtemberg and down through the Odenwald. 

 It is dark yellow and reddish yellow, or fawn, of fine, well- 

 proportioned bony structure, soft skin, with fine horns. The 

 cows are small, the oxen strong and useful. In fact this breed 

 unites the most useful qualities of adaptation to the yoke, beef 

 and milking in a greater than ordinary degree. It is the 

 animal for small farmers. 



A little above Worms on the Rhine, there is a considerable 

 tract of country known as the Palatinate, extending southerly 

 up along the western side of the river, as far as the French 

 border, and westerly as far as the Prussian province of Treves. 

 It is under the jurisdiction of Bavaria. Here is found a very 

 pretty and excellent little class of cattle known as the Glaner 

 race. It was not largely represented at the Exhibition, but 

 still the six or eight fine specimens shown were sufficient to 

 give an idea of their looks and most striking characteristics. 

 The animal is rather below the medium size. The oxen attain, 

 on an average, only about seven hundred pounds, though they 

 sometimes reach eight hundred, but rarely ever go up to one 

 thousand pounds. The color is yellow, red, dun, or fawn, 

 sometimes sporting into white, but never black or spotted. 

 They are well built and celebrated for milk and for fattening. 

 The body is close and compact, legs short, light in the bone, 

 the ribs well curved and the chest broad and deep. The look 

 of the animal is mild and confiding, the hide tender and yield- 

 ing, the hair fine, the movement in geijeral light, the whole 

 exterior indicates capacity and willingness to work, to give 

 milk or to lie down and quietly take on flesh for the profit of 

 the butcher. A cow of five hundred pounds will sometimes 

 give over twenty quarts of milk, and sixteen or eighteen is a 

 common yield. Tlie cows go dry only about four weeks before 

 calving. They are apt to " run to milk" and run down in flesh 

 when in full flow, but pick up again very fast as they dry up. 

 The milk is rich. The cows are generally very well marked, 

 taking Guenon as a standard. But no effort has been or is 



