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United States has classed it as a dairy breed. The author has 

 spent some time in Switzerland among these cattle, and all the 

 evidence there, as expressed by breeders and shown in the cattle, 

 is that it is a dual-purpose breed. The general type of Brown 

 Swiss cattle is distinctly blocky, the points being full from breast 

 to hind quarters, showing thickness and depth. Breeders in Swit- 

 zerland regard the cattle on the higher mountains as of a some- 

 what lighter type than those of the lowlands. The head is rather 



FIG. 206. Tell, fifth-prize Brown Swiss bull at Zug, Switzerland, 1913. This bull 



scored 83.5 points. From photograph, by courtesy of Joseph Frey, secretary of 



Brown Swiss Cattle Association, Lucerne 



heavy and, combining as it does a sizable horn and a fullness of 

 the neck quite unknown with British breeds, impresses one as 

 somewhat coarse. The neck is large and heavy in both sexes at 

 all ages, the skin about the throatlatch and along the dewlap being 

 strikingly abundant. The breast is broad and deep, and the shoulders 

 rather heavy and prominent, not being well laid in. The body 

 shows a great deal of feeding capacity, with plenty of depth ; but 

 the back is frequently slack back of the withers, and the fore ribs 

 have scarcely enough spring for best conformation. The hind 

 quarter is long, level, and broad at the rump, the thighs and twist 



