Vo l. XLIIL No. 1776. 
NEW YORK,, FEBRUARY 9, 1884. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1884. by the Rural New-Yorker in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
PRICE FIVE CENTS. 
$2.00 PER YEAR. 
£!)e perils mutt. 
SWISS CATTLE. 
In talking of Swiss cattle one must remem¬ 
ber that the word Swiss is as wide in its sig¬ 
nificance as French or English. Switzerland 
is made up of a number of small, independent 
Cantons or States united in a federal republic, 
very much like ours. Of these one is called 
Schwitz; and while Schwitz cattle are Swiss, 
all Swiss cattle are by no means Schwitz. 
Swiss cattle differ much in quality, being 
good, bad and indifferent, although it must be 
admitted that the good preponderate. Swit¬ 
zerland is especially a dairy country. Its 
mountains and valleys furnish the best of 
grasses and* the finest water; the air is pure, 
and the people are by long use and nature at¬ 
tached to their cattle. But all this may be 
true, and yet the cattle may not have been 
bred or cultivated to the high degree that is 
necessary to establish a highly improved 
race. To some extent this is the case, and 
although the most intelligent and enterpris¬ 
ing of the Swiss have cultivated and bred 
their cattle with very great care and success, 
yet in some localities not so highly favored by 
nature as other's, the cattle are inferior; so 
much so, that in some of the cheese factories 
the milk of cows that are not true Schwitz is 
refused. Upon this account when we think 
about Swiss cows, it is the highly bred and 
improved race or races which are to be con¬ 
sidered. as these alone are worthy of the ex¬ 
pense and trouble of importation hither. 
Some of these cattle have beeu imported here, 
and for several years past have been bred 
with care and acclimated, until they have 
made a reputation aDd have become popular. 
Mr. Aldrich, of Worcester, Mass., deserves 
the credit for his enterprise in introducing and 
popularizing these cattle. As a specimen of 
the breed, it need only be stated that one cow 
has made a record of 600 pounds of butter in a 
year, and has 2,000 pounds to her credit be¬ 
fore she is six years old. The best of these 
cows are bred in Schwitz, Simmenthal and 
Emmeuthal. The animal which is shown in 
Figure 40 is a Simmenthal cow, and differs 
A SWISS (SIMMENTHAL) COW. From a Photograph.-Fig. 40. 
