. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Team of Four Oxen in the Nivernais deep and full, with a capacious flexible udderand large milk veins. The Groningen cow is usually black, and isgood either for milking or for butchering. Sheis small, with a broad forehead, very largecrupper, and long legs. The cattle of northern and soutJiern Hollandare like those of Friesland, but rounder in body These cattle and those from Friesland composethe Holstein-Friesian race of our country. Dutch cows on sandy soils are small, angularin shape, and poor milkers. In this they yieldto
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Team of Four Oxen in the Nivernais deep and full, with a capacious flexible udderand large milk veins. The Groningen cow is usually black, and isgood either for milking or for butchering. Sheis small, with a broad forehead, very largecrupper, and long legs. The cattle of northern and soutJiern Hollandare like those of Friesland, but rounder in body These cattle and those from Friesland composethe Holstein-Friesian race of our country. Dutch cows on sandy soils are small, angularin shape, and poor milkers. In this they yieldto the Enghsh breeds, especially to that of theJersey, which is well known and exported theworld over. After the Jersey comes the Guern-sey, a breed not so widely distributed in the. In Alabama and thus more inclined to be meaty. Neverthe-less their production of milk is abundant, themeadows of Holland, both north and south. United States, but still well known and popular,and the Kerry of Ireland. So far but few herdsof Kerry cattle exist on this side of the water. CATTLE 21 Our magniticcnt breeds ofJersey an:l Guernsey cattle arethe direct descendants of cattleimported from the Channelislands or of those bred in thiscountry. The business of importing-cattle of these and other breedshas been an important one inyears past, and is not incon-siderable at the present time. The Guernsey is slightlylarger than the Jersey andperhaps a little more give very rich milk, butnot so much as the Holstein-Friesian or the Ajr-s/iirc, the imported cow from Scotland. Thislast-named breed is hardy and robust — idealin this respect. In sizeshe ranks between theJersey and the red or white, or amixture of the two, theAyrshire is not only at-tractive and pop
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