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should be called, rather the " brave man's cow." The humble 

 position held by this animal in America is not warranted by sci- 

 entific findings nor yet by practical experience. 



Dairy Type in Goats. — It is certainly more than a coinci- 

 dence that the type of the animal, developed through long ages 

 of experience, which is found to be the most profitable as a milk 

 producer possesses a type essentially very similar to that known 



Fig. 51. — Imp. Fanette, No. 151, the champion milk producer of the Toggenburg 

 breed in America. She produced in one year 2680 pounds of milk, or nearly twenty times 

 her own weight. Note that she possesses the essentials of the dairy type. (.Reproduced by 

 courtesy of "Littlelands in America," San Francisco, Cal.) 



as the dairy type in cows. The Saanan doe represented in 

 figure 54, and the Toggenburg doe, another Swiss breed, shown in 

 figure 52, agree essentially with the Spanish Maltese and with 

 the African Nubian and show the extreme dairy type. 



A study of these types reveals the presence of a large capacity 

 for food consumption coupled with the angularity and loose con- 

 struction of frame work which are essentiallv different from the 



