. The corn and cattle producing districts of France. nd east of France, and 5,000,000 in the forty-seven departments of the south and west. The number of breeds seems infinite, each littledistrict having a variety differing in some small degreefrom those surrounding it, and claiming a superiorityover every other; but there are fifteen acknowledgedraces, of which the others are merely offshoots. Ofthese fifteen, nine are specially workers ; three specially milkers ; one, that of Auvergne or Salers, consideredextremely good all round, for work, for milk, and formeat; one, the Comtoise or Femelin
. The corn and cattle producing districts of France. nd east of France, and 5,000,000 in the forty-seven departments of the south and west. The number of breeds seems infinite, each littledistrict having a variety differing in some small degreefrom those surrounding it, and claiming a superiorityover every other; but there are fifteen acknowledgedraces, of which the others are merely offshoots. Ofthese fifteen, nine are specially workers ; three specially milkers ; one, that of Auvergne or Salers, consideredextremely good all round, for work, for milk, and formeat; one, the Comtoise or Femeline, nseful in allthree, but not really very good in any; and one onlyexclusively an animal for the butcher, the Maine. In addition to these local breeds, a certain numberof cows are imported frcm Switzerland and from 90 CA TTLE. Holland, but the importations only exceed the exporta-tions by 50,000 bead: France rears enough cattle forher own wants. The destiny of all this stock is to be eaten, butcattle in France have much to do in earning their keep. COPLAND -^ AUTEUGXE, OH SALERS OX. by work or by supplying milk before they reach theshambles. With the single exception of a tract which includesMaine, parts of Anjou and of Eastern Brittany, andin which there are 1,000,000 head, labour and milkare the first things demanded of cattle in France. Inthe south it is almost wliolly labour that is required;in the north chiefly milk, what labour is done there by CATTLE. 91 oxen is done by animals bonglit outside the region, notreared in it. The three objects of labour, milk, and meat required—the two first being essential and paramount—renderimprovement, in the sense of giving more meat, one ofconsiderable difficulty. The English shorthorn is theagent in the improvement where it has been attemptedby crossing, and has found it an easy matter in Maine,where nothing but meat was asked for; and to so greatan extent has the shorthorn been used that the cattlein this district are no way to
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