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better weighers in proportion to their size; and though they 
give considerably less milk, 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 term finched, and mostly a white spot on the insids of 
the hough.’* sf 
8. The Short Horn or Durham Breed.—Durham and York- 
yeas Fig, 20. 
Tue SHort-Hornep Butt, Lozp ExyHotm 
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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