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TREATISE ON MILCH COWS. 



Fifth Oeber. —These Cows yield three and a half litres a day, and contmne 

 to give milk until four months gone with calf. 



Sixth Ordee. — These Cows yield two and a half litres a day, and contmue to 

 give milk until three months gone with calf. 



Seventh Ordek, — These Cows yield one litre a day, and continue to give milk 

 until a month and a half advanced in gestation. 



EkxHTH Oedek. — These Cows yield still less, and go dry upon being got with 

 calf. 



BASTARD OF THE SQUARE-SCUTCHEON COW. " 



When the streak (0) of ascending hair on the right of the vulva consists of 

 coarse, bristling hair, this indicates a Bastard. She will lose her milk the more 

 promptly in proportion to the size of this growth of bristling hair, to the coarse- 

 ness of the hair, and to the degree in which it bristles up and projects over ; but, 

 Vaerever this sign exists, the Cow will lose her milk, more or less gradually, a 

 i^ort time after being impregnated. The indication of this will be the more pos- 

 i£ve if the streaks above described as forming. the square, to the left of the vulva, 

 tuHi consist of coarse, bristling hair. 



CLASS VII. 

 ^\)6 ILimonsine Com. 



Tne first Cow of this Class which came under my notice was from the Province 

 wh3se name I have adopted as that of the Class. It is not tobe inferred, how- 

 ever, that none but the Cows of Limousin belong to the Class. Its characteristic 

 mark is to be found in all the different breeds. The name is a purely arbitrary 

 one ; and, in adopting it, I acted m the same spirit that influenced me in calling 

 my First Class the Flanders Cow. 



HieH cow. 



First Order. — Cows of this Order and Size, while at the hight of their flow, 

 yitii fourteen litres a day, and continue to give milk until they are eight months 

 gone with calf. 



The skin, within the escutcheon formed by the growth of ascending hair, is of 

 the same yellowish color as in the nigher Orders of the preceding Classes. The 

 udder is delicate, and covered with short, fine, and silky hair. The growth of 

 ascending hair begins between the teats, and on the inner side of the legs, above 

 the ho( K joint, spreading outwardly, as it rises, to the points A A (see Plate VII. 

 Order 1), on the outer surface of the thighs. From these points the escutcheon 

 is bounded by two right lines, which run slanting downward to the points J J, 

 which are about four inches apart. From these points two right lines rise to the 

 point U, somewhat less than three inches below the vulva, where they meet in 

 an acute angle. 



To the right and left of the vulva are two small streaks of ascending hair (C 

 C), about three inches .or less in length, by two-fifths of an inch in width. Above 

 the hind teats are two ovals of descending hair (G G), about four inches long, 



