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excellent as butter or family cows, while the males, 

 owing -to their activity and endurance, make splendid 

 oxen both useful and fine looking. They make fine 

 beef and a fair amount of it. They would be useful ani- 

 mals for crossing on the common stock and grades of the 

 Northwest, where the climate is rigorous and Loth but- 

 ter and beef are objects of importance. As workers, 

 they would be very useful there. They will stand as 

 much hardship as any breed we have, and as much as any 

 breed ought to, but will do better under favorable than 

 under unfavorable circumstances. Like all other breeds, 

 they respond readily to kind and generous treatment, it 

 being a universal law that want and abuse are sources of 

 loss in the keeping of stock, the best results always fol- 

 lowing the best treatment. They will do well on level, 

 hilly or rough pastures, because of their nimbleness and 

 endurance: while the certainty of their breedidg makes 

 it perhaps less difficult to perpetuate their good qualities 

 than is the case with any of the other breeds. In short, 

 they are the most prepotent and uniform of all, give a 

 good-sized mess of very rich milk, are easy to keep, hardy 

 and active, and fill a sphere which it would be difficult to 

 fill without them. We do not know how their milk ap- 

 pears under the microscope, but we judge from the char- 

 acteristics of these animals that the butter globules are 

 above the average size and very uniform. Hence the 

 cream rises readily, is easily churned, and makes a rich- 

 colored, fine-flavored butter. It is a little remarkable 

 that the breeders of these cattle have not succeeded in 

 getting up a "boom;" but the probability is that no 



