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portion to their size, and have a very fine coat and mellow hide, with a 

 fine, tapering tail, set low. They possess the valuable properties of 

 fattening kindly at an early age, and of yielding large quantities of 

 milk ; but the quality is not as rich as the Devons, or many other breeds. 

 They also possess a rather tender constitution, and it is sometimes diffi- 

 cult and expensive to keep them during the winter in England. 



Of this breed, Mr. Charles Collings, of Ketton, sold a bull, Comet, 

 at public auction, in the yearlSlO, for the extraordinary sum of one 

 thousand guineas. Many of the descendants of Comet attained to a large 

 size, amongst them the Lincolnshire ox, so called from being bred in that 

 •county, whose live weight was three thousand seven hundred and twelve 

 pounds. 



The lonij-horned cattle are descended from a breed which had Ions' 

 been established in the Craven district, in Yorkshire. Some cows of 

 this race, and a Lancashire long-horned bull, were brought early in the 

 last century, by a Mr. Webster, to Canley in Warwickshire, where they 

 produced a stock that soon became remarkable for their beauty of form, 

 and propensity to fatten. Of this Canley stock, the late Mr. Robert 

 Bakewell, of Dishley, in Leicestershire, procured some cows, which he 

 crossed with a Northumberland bull, and thus reared that celebrated 

 race, so well known as the Dishley breed. They were long and fine in 

 the horn, had small heads, clean throats, straight broad backs, wide 

 quarters, and were light in their bellies and offal : and probably 

 from the effects of domestication and gentle treatment, they were remark- 

 ably docile. They grew fat upon a smaller proportion of food than the 

 parent stock, but gave less milk than some other breeds. The chief 

 improvements effected, seem to have been in their aptitude to fatten early 

 on the most valuable points, and in the superior quality of their flesh. 



Notwithstanding the deservedly high reputation as a breeder, enjoyed 

 by Mr. Bakewell, during his life, and which still attaches to his name, 

 his judgment in selecting the long-horned cattle for his experiments, has 

 been called into question. It has been asserted by Mr. Young, an emi- 

 nent writer on agriculture, that, "had he adopted the middle-horned 

 breed, either of Sussex, Devonshire or Herefordshire, in preference to 

 the inferior stock, which the reputation of his name, and the mysterious 

 manner (he was very scrupulous relatire to communicating his judgment 

 .and practice in which his breeding system was conducted,) have intro- 



