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where bulls are for sale in order to get a choice. Sometimes bulls 

 will be farmed out by breeders who wish to see how they may 

 develop or how their dams may test before selling. In this way 

 the service of a son of a great sire from an untested dam may be 

 secured for a time for his keep. 



Hawthorn Dairy Maid 6753 

 Champion Brown Swiss cow in both milk and butter fat. Yearly record, 

 22,622.6 pounds of milk, 927.23 pounds of butter fat. Owned by Hawthorn 

 Farms, Lake County, 111. 



196. Type and individuality. — A dairy bull should be long, 

 deep and rather angular. Especially should he have marked con- 

 stitutional vigor. The chest should be particularly deep and the 

 front legs should be far enough apart to give good width of chest 

 with the ribs well sprung. He should have no heaviness or coarse- 

 ness in the withers and shoulders, beyond that which goes with 

 his sex character. A bull, of course, does not have as fine withers 



