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should have put on sufficient meat to make 

 her worth approximately as much money as 

 she cost. 



In suggesting that a cross-bred cow will 

 be found an economical servant to the small 

 holder, we have in view a type oi beast which 

 is frequently utilised by farmers in various 

 parts of England. Thus type is consistent, 

 although the animal is not always the same. 

 For instance, in parts of Cornwall v.-e have 

 frequently seen large deep-bodied, well-formed 

 cows which are the produce of a cross xnth. 

 the Guernsey. A good beast of this type, 

 with wide loins, plenty of breadth between the 

 buttocks, fine neck and shoulders, and a good 

 milking head, is frequently useful, yielding 

 large quantities of very rich milk; indeed, it 

 is owing to its propensity in this direction 

 that it is kept by Cornish farmers chiefly 

 for the production of clotted cream, which, 

 Cornishmen insist, is superior to that produced 

 in Devonshire, where Devon cows are invari- 

 ably employed. Quality in milk is of as 

 great importance as quantity, except, perhaps, 

 in those cases where large farmers make a 

 practice of selling the whole of their supply, 

 but even here there is doubt whether they 

 would not realise a larger net profit by 



