THE NORMAN OR COTENTIN BOVINE RACE. 
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simoniously. Experience has proved that the same quantity of 
fodder consumed by io cows gives more milk and profit than if 
it was consumed by 15 or 20 cows. Every milking cow ought 
to be well fed, and the breeder who considers his interest will 
never forget this Swiss proverb: “A cow is like a cupboard— 
you cannot get out of it anything that you did not put into it.” 
The Norman cow reaches the weight of 1200 to 1800 pounds, 
and keeps always an aptitude suitable for fattening, which 
permits it to supply for slaughter, after an abundant lactation, 
a return of meat very remunerative. It is in the breeder’s 
interest to possess cows which, after having furnished him with 
a great quantity of milk can be sold off without any heavy loss. 
This double destination has besides a far greater advantage for 
breeding, for the male calves which are not kept as bulls furnish 
oxen that are quickly developed and soon get fat. The Nor¬ 
man oxen fatten at the age of 2 years, or 3 years reach the 
average weight of 1600 to 2000 pounds. It is not rare to find 
subjects weighing 2400 pounds at the age of 2 years. The 
meat is excellent, and so much appreciated on the market of 
La Villette (Paris) that it obtains currently a better price by 
or to one cent) per pound than the special races for 
the shambles such as the Durhams, the Limousins, the Nivernais 
or their derivatives. 
When the Norman race is better known it will obtain 
promptly that reputation which has perhaps been granted with 
too much infatuation to other races. 
Let us add, in terminating,'that the Norman Herd Book, 
created in 1883, and of which the seat is at Caen, Calvado, 
counts at present a considerable number of inscribed animals, 
sires and dams (about 7000). and that this institution puts under 
shelter from all foreign contact the purity of this excellent and 
fine Norman race, which has long been proclaimed the first 
milking race in the world. 
For every information about Norman breeding apply to the 
correspondent of the Norman Herd Book, J. B. Guillot, at Mr. 
Chester W. Chapin, No. 1 Broadway, New York City. 
