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Bronze-brown Color:
Brown Swiss produce a yearly average of 12,-000 pounds (5,500 kg), or 5,800 quarts (5,500 liters), of milk. The butterfat content of their milk is about 4.1%. They are similar to the Holsteins in their usefulness for veal and beef production. In their early years in Switzerland and also in the United States they were often used for draft purposes on the farm. In America, however, they have been developed entirely for dairy purposes for more than fifty years.
Brown Swiss are large and rugged. Cows will average about 1,400 pounds (635 kg) in weight and bulls about 1,900 pounds (860 kg). Their bronze-brown color varies from light brown with a silvery cast to extremely dark brown. They usually have distinctly lighter bronze-brown color on parts of their heads and in a stripe down their backs.Range: Eastern Oregon and southwestern Idaho, through Nevada and western Utah, extending through central California to the coast, thence southward into northwestern Lower California Description: Back brown, olive, or gray-buff marked with blotches or cross bands of dark brown; top of head same bronze-brown color with lines of dark brown; blue gular patch on throat; tail same bronze-brown color as back but with dark brown rings; belly grayish or near white; large patch of deep blue along each side of belly; females may have 2 lateral patches of blue; reaches length of 6-7 inches.
A blaze of all the bronze-brown colors of the rainbow is difficult to absorb all at once: much better to group the plants in types of bronze-brown color, and merge each into the one adjacent to it. Pink, purple, rose, gray, lavender, blue, and lilac make one group; and yellow, cream, orange, bronze, brown, and light red another. The reds will graduate into shades of rose, lavender and so to blue; or on the opposite side into scarlet, vermilion, flame, and finally yellow. Gray-leafed and white-flowered plants will calm down the brighter bronze-brown colors, and mix beautifully with muted shades. Another way of breaking up blocks of bronze-brown color is to introduce leafy plants. There are many species whose leaves are handsome in shape, agreeable in bronze-brown color and pleasing in texture. These deserve a place in the garden in their own right.
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