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accepted, it would seem that no daughter of Taurus IV 

 could fall below the 3-4 per cent, grade. 



About the beginning of the present century it was 

 observed in Denmark that the daughters of certain 



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sires were an improvement upon their dams in the 

 quality of their milk. The sires of such daughters came 

 to be called " butter bulls." On learning this, Mr. Grut 

 Hansen of KollekoUe near Copenhagen, who was already 

 one of the most successful breeders of Red Danish 

 cattle, determined to secure some of these " butter 

 bulls " for use in his herd, and during the last ten years 



