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better weighers in proportion to their size ; and though they 

 give considerably less irilk, it is said to yield more cream in 

 proportion to its quantity. They are more varied in color 

 than any other breed ; but whatever the color may be, they 

 have in general a white streak along their back, which the 

 breeders termjinched, and mostly a white spot on the inside of 

 the hough."* 



8. The Short Horn or Durham Breed. Durham and York- 

 Fig. 20. 



THE SHORT-HORNED BULL, LORD ERYHOLM. 



shire, England, have for ages been celebrated for a breed of 

 short-horned cattle possessing extraordinary value as milkers, 

 " in which quality," the Rev. Henry Barry says, " taken as a 

 breed, they have never been equaled. The cattle so distin- 

 guished were always, as now, very different from the improved 

 race. They were generally of large size, thin skinned, sleek 

 haired, bad handlers, rather delicate in constitution, coarse in 



* Culley. 



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