494 CATTLK AND DAIRY FARMING. 



When 0110 is unable to bestow such nourishment on tho Angeln cattle, 

 it would bo advisable not to keep thoin, because, just us they are able 

 to make a return lor their liberal koop. they are liable to recede where 

 the soil, climate, and natural conditions are unfavorable. Xot only do 

 they fall off in their milking qualities, but they sink under attacks of 

 consumption. 



\Vlien the breed of Angela cattle began to be cultivated in this coun- 

 try strong, nourishing fodder was far from being common, and even on 

 the larger estates much less fodder was given than in later times. 



The ruling principles in breeding wore to preserve and to further 

 develop the fineness in the breed, and mainly from a scanty feeding 

 and from the early stage of calving of the young cows this fineness was 

 at times carried to a dangerous extent. Gradually, however, a reaction 

 took place in this respect, and subsequent to the agricultural meeting 

 in Copenhagen in 1800, there commenced a demand for greater body 

 development, whilst at the same time a more liberal foddering became 

 general. J>nt it was also shown that the Angela cattle did not disown 

 their natural thriving tendencies, for the breed by degrees willingly 

 submitted to the new requirements demanded of them, and even in such 

 herds, where most advancement had been made in the direction of line- 

 ness, but where, however, health had been preserved, good results could 

 be obtained. 



Those movements inbreeding Angela cows, and the results therefrom 

 in later times, are contrary to the belief that when the necessary fine- 

 ness has boon reached in any productive breed and becomes a sign of 

 race or descent, that then a very considerable structural development, 

 both as regards body and bone surface, and therewith a corresponding 

 life existence, may be given to the animal without any sensible loss 

 therefrom in iineaess, whilst the producing properties are increased at 

 the same time. 



Sufficient attention has not always been given to these points, and 

 those who have cither received their views of the Angela breed from 

 the period whoa the general desire was for elegance, or from those herds 

 of the- present day, whore, they pertinaciously hold to the same, and W!K> 

 have scarcely paid attention to the movements of the last ten years in 

 the advanced herds of tho country, can yet be astonished at what they 

 have noticed in the. Iineaess and so-called one-sided consequences in 

 daiiy thrift. In those parts of this country, where one only in the 

 later years has begun to understand what dairy thrift really means, it 

 has been very hard for them to got rid of the scare which the remem- 

 brance of by-gone days associated with the ideal of a good milch cow. 

 The above-mentioned experience in regard to the development of the 

 line Angcln breed in the last ten years wiil, however, without any doubt, 

 soon help to dissipate this scare once, for all. Kvou if it bo taken for 

 granted that the Angela cattle in their native home have, as before 

 staled, a weight of 7."io to 800 pounds each, which calculation is from 

 1S77. and thus included the progress, small as it is, which the breed 

 lias made even in its native home, still this weight is probably not a 

 little above what the, lino Angela cattle weighed from the year 1800. 

 I Jul even if one goes out from 7.~>0 to 800 pounds for a five-year-old cow 

 a considerable iner-ase in weight can be seen in the Aagoln cattle, now 

 in t his count ry. 



For the year is.Sl the following weights have been given of Aageln 

 cows on a Danish farm, namely, 17 head of cows, live- years old, that 

 had calved weighed OIL* pounds per head; M head of cows, seven 4 years 

 old. thai had not calved, weighed 1,0,1S pounds per head; three-year-old 



