Identifier: domesticanimalsf00stor (find matches)
Title: The domestic animals : from the latest and best authorities. Illustrated
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Storke, Elliot G., 1811-1879
Subjects: Horses Domestic animals
Publisher: Auburn, N.Y. : Auburn publish. Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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hort-horn class; not, indeed, the high bred Duiham short-horn,but a large capacious animal, possessing several of its qualities, andgiving a large quantity of milk, with as much aptitude to fatten as isconsistent with the production of milk, and hence is selected by thedairymen of large towns, and especially of London, for the supply ofmilk for a given period, and then to be fatted on distillers refuse, andother waste matters which a town will afford, and thus o-ive a doublepay to the dairyman. The Yorkshire cow is of much larger size than either of those wehave been considering; and, when fat, will weigh from eight to elevenhundred pounds. Her head is fine, and somewhat small; there is aserene placidity of eye, which shows a mild and gentle disposition, tend-ing alike to produce fat and milk. The horns are small and white, themuzzle without black spots; the breast deep and prominent, but thatand the shoulders thin ; the neck somewhat narrow, but full below the6* 106 DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
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CATTLE. 107 shoulders, and without any loose skin ; the barrel somewhat round ; thebelly capacious; milk-vein large; back perfectly straight; rump wide,and flat as a table; tail small, and set on so that there is almost astraight line from the tail to the head. The prevailing color is roan, orred or white; and sometimes white, with the tips of the ears red. Thethighs are thin; but the legs are straight and somewhat short. Theudder is very large and muscular, projecting forward, well filled up be-hind, and so broad as to give the cow the appearance of a waddle inher walking. Indeed, her qualities are not inappropriately described insome doggerel lines often quoted; and t^vo of the verses we shall ven-ture to give, as most aptly descriptive of the Yorkshire cow Shes broad in her ribs, and long in her rump,A straight and flat back without ever a hump;Shes wide in lier hips, and cahii in lier eyes;Shes fine in her slioulders, and thin in her tliighs Shes hght in her neck, and small in her

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