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United States has classed it as a dairy breed. The author has 

 spent some time in Switzerland among these cattle, and all the 

 evidence there, as expressed by breeders and shown in the catde, 

 is that it is a dual-purpose breed. The general type of Brown 

 Swiss cattle is distinctly blocky, the points being full from breast 

 to hind quarters, showing thickness and depth. Breeders in Swit- 

 zerland regard the cattle on the higher mountains as of a some- 

 what lighter type than those of the lowlands. The head is rather 



Fig. 206. Tell, fifth-prize Brown Swiss bull at Zug, Switzerland, 1913. This bull 



scored 83.5 points. From photograph, by courtesy of Joseph Frey, secretary of 



Brown Swiss Cattle Association, Lucerne 



heavy and, combining as it does a sizable horn and a fullness of 



the neck quite unknown with British breeds, impresses one as 



somewhat coarse. The neck is large and heavy in both sexes at 



all ages, the skin about the throatlatch and along the dewlap being 



strikingly abundant. The breast is broad and deep, and the shoidders 



rather heavy and prominent, not being well laid in. The body 



shows a great deal of feeding capacity, with plenty of depth ; but 



the back is frequently slack back of the withers, and the fore ribs 



have scarcely enough spring for best conformation. The hind 



quarter is long, level, and broad at the rump, the thighs and twist 

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