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her quiet ways, and more than average milking qualities. 
Docility and milk — these are great parts in anybody's cow. If 
to these we add form and size, the long sought for ' general 
purpose ' cow is found." 
" The Guinea C^z£/."— This is the name of a race but little 
known beyond Florida and the southern tier of counties in 
Georgia. The race is now well established, their most prominent 
characteristics being their adaptability to the region to which they 
belong. Early in the present century Col. Stapler, who lived near 
the Florida line, in Lowndes county, Ga., owned several of them, 
and so far as known all the present herd are descendants of the 
Stapler stock. The Breeders' Gazette published some account of 
the Colonel's efforts to- establish the race, from which we quote. 
The supposition is that they may be traced to some Brittany cat- 
tle imported by some settlers from that country : 
•' The native pasturage of the pine barrens was neither abund- 
ant nor luxurious, indicating the necessity for an animal of small 
bulk, hardy, and a wide ranger. He succeeded in getting an ad- 
mirable little animal, that asks for little other food than the scant 
supply of grass she can gather upon the range, and will keep fat 
upon a diet that to the larger breeds would be starvation rations. 
As to size, some fellow says : ' She is a yard high, a yard and a 
half long, and about a yard wide.' One brought to Enterprise, 
Volusia Co., Fla., is described by the local paper as follows : ' She 
is broad on the back, slim neck, small and delicate legs and feet, 
well filled up in fore and hind quarters, long for her height, which 
is just thirty-nine inches, and an eye in which meekness and 
content with gentleness shines. She keeps fat where a common 
Florida cow would starve, and gives about two gallons of milk, 
of a high grade, twice a day. This little cow might butcher 
about 400 lbs. net, and is undoubtedly the most contented and 
gentle animal in Florida.' Another says : ' Their body is scarcely 
a foot from the ground, and the udder is enormous. They are 
hardy and gentle, active browsers, and eat about half what is 
needed for an ordinary cow.' Yet another says : ' They are usu- 
ally of a deep red color, always fat and gentle, with crumpled 
horns and deep escutcheon. They require less food and give 
