Third Order. — These Cows yield six Hires a day, and continue to give milk 

 until six months gone with calf. 



Fourth Order. — These Cows yield five litres a day, and continue to give milk 

 until five months gone with calf. 



Fifth Order. — Tliese Cows yield four litres a day, and continue to give milk 

 until four months gone with calf. 



Sixth Order, — These Cows yield tAree litres a day, and continue to give milk 

 until three months gone with calf. 



Seventh Order.— These Cows yield two litres a day, and continue to give milk 

 until one month gone with calf. 



Eighth Order. — These Cows yield one litre a day, and go dry upon being got 

 with calf. 



BASTARD OF THE LIMOUSINE COW. 



In this Class also, as in the Curveline and Bicorn Classes, the Bastard is indi- 

 cated by the streaks of ascending hair {F F) to the right and left of the vulva ; 

 which streaks are of the same dimensions and of the same character generally 

 as in those Classes. (See Plate IX. Fig. 8.) 



CLASS VIII. 



SClje f or^ontal Cut dom. 



I have given tliis name to those Cows whose escutcheon is bounded at top by 

 a horizontal line, which cuts the ascending hair square off just when it has spread 

 to its greatest width. The figure (Plate VIII.) will be seen to be very different 

 from that of the other Classes. 



HIGH COW. 



First Order. — The Cows of this Order and Size, during the hight of their 

 flow, yield ttvelve litres a day, and they continue to give milk until they are 

 eight months gone with calf. 



The skin within the escutcheon, and the dandruf from it, are of a reddish 

 low. The ascending hair is short and fine ; the skin beneath it quite silk; 

 four teats far apart. As in the other Classes, the ascending hair whiclv 

 the escutcheon begins between the four teats, and on the inner surface 

 thighs, a little above the hock joint — spreading out, as it rises, to the points E E, 

 on tlie outer surface of the thighs. Here it is cut short off, by a transversal or 

 horizontal line, running across from one thigh to the other. 



Although the escutcheon does not rise, as in the other Classes, to or near the 

 vulva, we nevertheless find, on the right and left of that orifice, the two streaks 

 of ascending hair (C C), which are so valuable, as an indication of the character 

 of the Cow, in regard to the period during which she will continue to give milk 

 after becoming pregnant : this point being determined by the size of these marks 

 and the nature of the hair within them. In the present Order thrv consist of 

 fine hair, and are from three and a quarter to four inches in length, by less than 

 half an inch broad. 



Above the hind teats are two littls oval marks (B B), consistiut;' oi downward 

 powing hair, distinguishable by its whitish coior as well as nv me uuection in 

 » hich it points. 



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