BREEDS OF COWS. 



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animals. This is particularly true of grade cows of this blood the offspring 

 of Shorthorn bulls from milking families. 



THE DUAL-PURPOSE cow. 



Though many attempts have been made to develop a breed of cattle 

 profitable for both beef and milk, success in that direction has not yet 

 been reached, and it seems more than probable that such a breed will 

 never be secured. It is the natural tendency of every cow to use her 



JENNIE MAY 7157 TYPICAL DEVON COW. 

 Owned by Stockwell & Gifford, Button, Mass. 



surplus food either in growth and the accumulation of fat, or in the 

 production of milk. Either of these tendencies may be greatly strengthened 

 by intelligent breeding and selection, but no breed has ever been developed 

 which excels in both beef and butter-making qualities, and improvement 

 in either direction has usually been accompanied by a corresponding loss 

 in the other. It is true that there are some breeds which make animals 

 of fair size and which are also fair dairy animals, but they are only fair as 



