COVINGTON, a city and county-seat of Kenton co., Ky.; on the Ohio river, opposite Cincinnati, which which it is connected by a handsome suspension bridge, 2,250 feet long, and costing $2,000,000. It is on the Louisville and Nashville and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroads. Electric lines connect it with near-by towns. It is a residence town for Cincinnati business men and is the see of a Catholic bishop. Covington is the farming and live-stock producing and trade center of central Kentucky, and has steamer connections with all river ports. The principal manufactories are cotton and woolen mills, rolling mills, to bacco factories, etc. Previous to the enactment of prohibition there were many distilleries. In 1919 there were 3 National banks, with $1,150,000 capital, and several daily and weekly news papers. Covington is built on a beauti ful plain, and has an area of over 5 square miles. The most notable build ings are the combined City Hall and Court House; the United States Govern ment building, including the Postoffice and Federal Court rooms; the Public Library, the Roman Catholic Cathedral, and the Hospital of St. Elizabeth. Cov
ington was settled in 1812; laid out in 1815, and incorporated as a city in 1834.
Pop. (1910) 53,270; (1920) 57,121.
COW, the female of the bovine species called the ox (Bos taurus), of which the bull is the raale. Like other domestic animals it has run into numerous varie ties, and its primitive uniformity has given rise to manifold diversity. Nor is it in color alone that it has It has done so in form, besides which there are horned and hornless oxen. The Dar winian principle of natural selection with the survival of the fittest has adapted cattle of different sizes and qualities to different parts of the coun try; little, active cattle, thriving on the scanty herbage found high up the moun tainside, and large, heavy, slow-going cattle Of luxurious proclivities falling off unless they are allowed to revel amid the rank vegetation of river sides and meadows. The latter furnish the great est quantity of milk. See DAnry.