TREATISE ON MILCH COWS. 



Third Order. — These Cows yield six Hires a day, and continue to give milk 

 until six months gone with calf. 



Fourth Order. — These Cows yield Jive litres a day, and continue to give milk 

 until five months gone with calf. 



Fifth Order. — These Cows yield four litres a day, and continue to give milk 

 until four months gone with calf. 



Sixth Order. — These Cows yieU three litres a day, and continue to give milk 

 until three months gone with calf. 



Seventh Order. — These Cows yield tivo litres a day, and continue to give milk 

 until one month gone Avith call". 



Eighth Order. — These Cows yield one litre a day, and go dry upon being got 

 with calf. 



BASTARD OF THE LIMOUSINE COW. 



In this Class also, as in the Curveline and Bicorn Classes, the Bastard is indi- 

 cated by the streaks of ascending hair (F F) to the right and left of the vulva ; 

 which streaks are of the same dimensions and of the same character generally 

 as in those Classes. (See Plate IX. Fig. 8.) 



CLASS VIII. 

 Slje ^oripntal (iTut (Horn. 



I have given this name to those Cows whose escutcheon is bounded at top by 

 a horizontal line, which cuts the ascending hair square off just when it has spread 

 to its greatest width. The figure (Plate VIII.) will be seen to be very diflerent 

 from that of the other Classes. 



HIGH COW. 



First Order. — The Cows of this Order and Size, during the hight of their 

 flow, yield twelve litres a day, and they continue to give milk until they are 

 eight months gone with calf. 



The skin within the escutcheon, and the dandruf from it, are of a reddish yel- 

 low. The ascending hair is short and fine ; the skin beneath it quite silky ; the 

 four teats far apart. As in the other Classes, the ascending hair which forms 

 the escutcheon begins between the four teats, and on the inner surface of the 

 thighs, a little above the hock joint — spreading out, as it rises, to the points E E, 

 on the outer surface of the thighs. Here it is cut short off, by a transversal or 

 horizontal line, running across from one thigh to the other. 



Although the escutcheon does not rise, as in the other Classes, to or near the 

 vulva, we nevertheless find, on the right and left of that orifice, the two streaks 

 of ascending hair (C C), which are so valuable, as an indication of the character 

 of the Cow, in regard to the period during which she will continue to give milk 

 after becoming pregnant : this point being determined by the size of these marks 

 and the nature of the hair within them. In the present Order they consist of 

 fine hair, and are from three and a quarter to four inches in length, by less than 

 half an inch broad. 



Above the hind teats are two little oval marks (B B), consisting of downward 

 growing hair, distinguishable by its whitish color as well as by the direction in 

 which it points. 



