. American cattle:. Cattle. 54 AMERICAN CATTLE readily managed. Her udder is soft, tidy in shape, with thin, silky hair upon it, clean, taper teats, easily drawn, and every way satisfactory to her keeper. We submit a portrait of a well bred coav, dry of her milk and fatted, in which will readily be seen the fully developed charac- teristics of her Plate 3. Devon Cow. As an evidence of the milking qualities of the Devons, verv considerable dairies of them have long been kept in England. In Youatt, is an account by Mr. Conyers, of Epping, who, in the year 1788, kept a dairy of them. "
. American cattle:. Cattle. 54 AMERICAN CATTLE readily managed. Her udder is soft, tidy in shape, with thin, silky hair upon it, clean, taper teats, easily drawn, and every way satisfactory to her keeper. We submit a portrait of a well bred coav, dry of her milk and fatted, in which will readily be seen the fully developed charac- teristics of her Plate 3. Devon Cow. As an evidence of the milking qualities of the Devons, verv considerable dairies of them have long been kept in England. In Youatt, is an account by Mr. Conyers, of Epping, who, in the year 1788, kept a dairy of them. "He preferred the Devons on account of their large produce, Avhether in milk, butter, or by suckling. He thought that they held their milk longer than any other sort that he had tried; that they Avere liable to fewer disorders in their udders; and being of small size, they did not eat more than half what larger cows consumed. He thus sums up his account of them: ' Upon an average, ten cows gave me sixty pounds of butter per week, in summer, and twenty-four. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Allen, Lewis F. (Lewis Falley), 1800-1890. New York, Taintor brothers & co.
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