TREATISE ON MILCH COWS 



Eighth Order. — These Cows yield two litres a day, and go dry upon being 

 impregnated anew. 



BASTARD OF THE CURVELINE COW. 



In the Curveline Cow, the growths of ascending hair, (F F) to the right and 

 left of the vulva, require special attention, in regard to their dimensions, to see 

 that they are of the size indicated in the several descriptions of the different Or- 

 ders. When they are of small size, they do not indicate a very rapid loss of milk ; 

 but when they are from four to five mches long, by an inch and a half in width, 

 (in which case they are generally pointed at both ends, and consist of coarse hair,) 

 they may then be considered as the size of a bastard Cow, that will go dry so 

 soon as she is got with calf. As a general rule with regard to these marks, the 

 larger they are, the worse will the Cow be in this respect. (See Plate IX. Fig. 4.) 



CLASS IV. 

 ®l)c Bicorn (JToto. 



This name is given to my Fourth Class, because the upper part of its escutch- 

 eon represents two horns. Cows of this class are good milkers. They are found 

 in all the breeds which we possess in France. In this, as in the other Classes, 

 the general mark of the Class presents itself under modifications indicative of the 

 Order to which the Cow belongs. 



HIGH COW. 



First Order. — Cows of this Order and Size yield, while at the hight of their 

 flow, sixteen litres a day, and continue t® give milk until they are eight months 

 gone with calf. 



Like those of the same Order in the foregoing Classes, they are distinguished 

 by the delicacy of their udder. The dandruf which detaches from the skin 

 throughout the escutcheon is of a yellowish or copperish color. This escutcheon, 

 as I have said above, has at top two horns, formed in the way that is seen in the 

 drawing. (Plate IV. Order 1.) It begins, as in the foregoing Orders, in the space 

 between the four teats, and on the inner surface of the thighs, just above the hock 

 joint ; whence it rises toward the tail, spreading over the inner surface, and par- 

 tially over the outer surface, of the thighs, to the points A A. From these points, 

 its outline consists of curved lines to the points B B, which are distant about four 

 inches from the vulva. Thence the outline descends again on each side in near- 

 ly straight lines, which meet at the point C, immediately beneath the vulva, and 

 at the distance of about eight inches from it. On the right and left of the vulva, 

 are two streaks of ascending hair, (F F) about two inches long by two-fifths of an 

 inch in width. 



As in the higher Orders of the Classes already described, so in the present we 

 find, above the two hind teats, two small oval marks, (D D) formed by hair grow- 

 ing downward in the field of ascending hair. 



Second Order. — These Cows, while at the hight of their flow, yield fourteen 

 litres a day, and continue to give milk until they are seven months gone with 

 caif. 



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