WHITE IN CATTLE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 100, 3 June 1914, Page 11

WHITE IN CATTLE.

The "Live Stock Journal" remarks in connection with the marked tendency to. albinism-.shown, by Shorthorns! and. Ayrshires, that Mr Lydekker, the; wellknown naturalist, has drawn attention to what he truly calls the remarkable development of the white areas" on a beast. "Anyone who possesses a large herd of either, of these .breads can scjU'idely.' fail to notice that a strong tendency for the white tp fallow the lines of the more parts of the skeleton,,' . Thxis there' will y.ery gpnerally a firoqid. ;pand of white folI6wi ! iig l 't I he ( ' line oi' the' shoulder-blade acioss .the forequarttr, and thence continued down the foreleg. Similarly, another broad band of white will run across the forejquarter, and thence conpelvis, and sOv.down the hind leg. A precisely similar, tendency may be noticed in piebald and skewbald horses, from which it may be inferred that the tendency to loss of colour in the hair is in some way influenced by the disposition of the chief elements of the skeleton."