HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



THE IMPROVED HOLSTEIN, OR DUTCH 

 BREED. 



THE rapid improvements which have taken place 

 in this and other kinds, form an interesting subject 

 of enquiry, of which the limits of our work will 

 only allow us to give the outlines. We shall, 

 however, notice the general principles which have 



height at the shoulder, was five feet ten inches ; and it weighed, 

 without the offal, one hundred and eighty-seven stones five pounds 

 fourteen pounds to the stone. 



