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to the same conditions of soil and climate, a name indicating thoso 
conditions, and thus originated Mountain Cattle, Highland Cattle, and 
Lowland Cattle. He also heads each of these divisions by the breed 
best representing the distinctive feature of its class, as its type. It is 
under the denomination of Lowland Cattle that ho places the different 
breeds of the coast lands along the North Sea. Schmalz, Pabst, and 
(many subsequent writers, adopt this classification ; somo with a few 
modifications, but all in the physical characteristics of the country to 
which they are indigenous, the general denomination of the collective 
group, according to Schmalz’s statement, cattle, adopting Sturm’s classi- 
fication, may be distinguished in the following manner: 
liaees cf Dutch Cattlo. 
“A. Lowland Race. — Primitive cow; Dutch-Fricsiau cow'. 
“ B. Mountain Race. — Degenerate, quite the contrary of A ; Swiss cow. 
“C. Middle Race. — Highland race; forms the transition from A to 
B ; Frankish cow. 
“Schmalz says, ‘To the race A belong the Dutch, as representatives, 
the Friesian, the Oldenburg, and chiefly all Lowland races ‘bearing tho 
peculiar characteristics which identify it with tho place of its sojourn.* 
“This is a purely natural division, and there is not the least arrocarco 
in asserting, what history points out, that the Dutch cattlo constitute tho 
Type of the oldest, purest, and best breed. All other varieties arc of 
less intrinsic value ; they are coarser or smaller, possess less productive 
dualities, though of local excellence in their native places. ‘ If cattfe of 
the genuine breed are bought, imported elsewhere, and there bred, why is 
it not called by its native name, and why must an appellation be given to 
•.l quite foreign and unknown to it?' 
“One hears in Europe of ‘Lowland cattle,’ but purchases of them for 
the purpose of improving other breeds have, for tho last hundred years, 
been only made in tho chief Netherland provinces, where the choicest 
cattle of the Lowlands arc found. Thus, thousands of Dutch and Friesian 
cattle are annually sent abroad under the name of Dutch cattle 
Dr. George May’s Testimony. 
Finally, I bog to add quotations from Dr. George May,* director of 
the agricultural establishment at Weihensfephan, who visited Holland 
about ten years ago. 
“Tho Dutch cattle constitute the type of the properly so-called Lowland 
ODr. Georgo May : “Tho Cuttle.” Muulch. 1803. Voi. III., p. 38- 
