. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. HISTORY OF H E E E F 0 K D C A T T L E 67 milk IS superior to that of any other eow except the Alderney. The quantity of milk given by a cow will greatly depend on her treatment with her first calf. If she has not proper feed to swell the milk veins at first starting she will never afterwards make a good milker. The Hereford cow seldom has a fair chance here. I speak from experience," he says, "for I have had much to do with the Herefords for several years, and have had many good milki
. History of Hereford cattle : proven conclusively the oldest of improved breeds . Hereford cattle. HISTORY OF H E E E F 0 K D C A T T L E 67 milk IS superior to that of any other eow except the Alderney. The quantity of milk given by a cow will greatly depend on her treatment with her first calf. If she has not proper feed to swell the milk veins at first starting she will never afterwards make a good milker. The Hereford cow seldom has a fair chance here. I speak from experience," he says, "for I have had much to do with the Herefords for several years, and have had many good milking cows of that breed," to which Mr. Youatt says, "these are very important observations, and although we are not sufficiently convinced to alter what we have written, and what almost universal experience and belief confirm, the remarks of Mr. Walker deserve serious atten- ; Mr. Youatt, in making up the history of the Hereford cattle, quotes from Marshall his de- scription of the points on which to judge the Hereford breed, but does not quote Marshall when he says: "The Herefordshire breed of cattle, taking it all in all, may, without risk, I believe, be cleemed the first breed of cattle in this island. Their frame is altogether athletic, with limbs in most cases sufficiently clean for the purpose of traveling (T| 52). "Their form as beasts of draught is nearly complete. Besides their superiority as beasts of draught and their being eligible as dairy stock, being in this respect similar to Glouces- tershire, the females fatten kindly at an early age,—the strongest proof of their excellencv as fattening cattle. I have seen three-year-old heifers of this breed, to use a familiar phrase, as fat as mud; much fatter than any heifers of that age that I have seen of any other breed, the spayed heifer of Norfolk excepted. "Viewing the Herefordshire cattle in this light, which I believe to be the true one, how unfortunate for the rural affairs of the
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