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. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. industriesof butter and cheese making flourish in thoseregions. An examination of the ex-terior of the bovine race showsthat it exhibits a vast varietyof color. Black, yellow, brown,reddish brown, black-spotted,and white cows give to a land-scape full of cattle a rich andvaried character. Color hasbecome a fixed character inmany breeds ; as, for instance,the black and white of the Hol-stein, the black of the Angusand the Galloway, the red andwhite of the Ayrshire and theHereford, the fawn and brownof the Jersey, and the yellow
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. industriesof butter and cheese making flourish in thoseregions. An examination of the ex-terior of the bovine race showsthat it exhibits a vast varietyof color. Black, yellow, brown,reddish brown, black-spotted,and white cows give to a land-scape full of cattle a rich andvaried character. Color hasbecome a fixed character inmany breeds ; as, for instance,the black and white of the Hol-stein, the black of the Angusand the Galloway, the red andwhite of the Ayrshire and theHereford, the fawn and brownof the Jersey, and the yellowand brown of the Guernsey. Many cattle raisers preferto have animals all of one colorrather than of many colors and of many is only by following fixed lines of breedingthat the greatest success will be attained. Todo this is neither difficult nor expensive, andis far more satisfactory than a practice of in-discriminate breeding, which is so commonthroughout the land. Cows, as well as bulls and oxen, usually havetwo hollow horns on their head, which form. In Alabama their weapons of offense. The horns of certainbreeds are strongly developed and very long;others are without horns, and butt with their CATTLE 21 I
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