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where many excellent breeders, favored by a climate 

 and pastures eminently adapted to bring the short-horn 

 to perfection, have not only imported extensively from 

 the best herds in England, but have themselves attained 

 a degree of knowledge and skill equalled only by that 

 of the most celebrated breeders in the native country 

 of this improved race. 



In sections where the climate is moist and the food 

 abundant and rich, some families of the short-horns may 

 be valuable for the dairy ; but they are most frequently 

 bred exclusively for beef in this country, and in sec- 

 tions where they have attained the highest perfection 

 of form and beauty so little is thought of their milking 

 qualities that they are often not milked at all, the calf 

 being allowed to run with the dam. 



Fig. 7. Imported Dutch Cow. 



THE DUTCH is a short-horned race of cattle, which, in 

 the opinion of many, as I have already remarked, con- 

 tributed largely, about a century ago, to build tip the 

 Durham or Teeswater stock. It has been bred with 

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