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CATTLE 



the size being comparatively small, the fore udder abbreviated, 

 and the teats placed too closely together. 



Dutch Belted cattle as milk producers are of secondary impor- 

 tance, but very little having been done in breeding them for heavy 

 production. The cow Lady Baird 82 was credited with 32 quarts 

 of milk in a day in a private record in 1893 at the World's 

 Columbian Exposition. Lady Aldine 124 is said to have made 



Fig. 189. Ida May 8zg, an excellent type of Dutch Belted cow; owned by 

 D. B. Wilson, Waterbury, Connecticut. From photograph by the author 



32 quarts of milk in a day on grass alone. But few official tests 

 of the cows have been made. The Lancecote herd at Peapack, 

 New Jersey, has shown the best records up to 19 18. Of these 

 the following are of most importance : 



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