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Ireland. In applying this test it will often be found that an animal 

 spoken of as lean seems so from a want of flesli, the flank handle 

 being all that one would expect in highly fed animals. This flank 

 test cannot be too strongly advocated, seeing it is perhaps the only 

 one which can be depended upon to discriminate, with any degree of 

 certainty, between fat and flesh in a living subject. Were it more 

 generally applied the credit accorded to many apparently lean 

 animals would be less pronounced. Flesh and milk can, and do, go 

 together, and this being so it is all-important from the point of view 

 of constitution and health in our animals that this is kept in mind. 

 An animal's strength depends upon its muscular development, and it 

 is unreasonable to expect strong, healthy progeny from weak, fleshless, 

 though perhaps fat, parents. — Robert Bruce, in The Journal of the 

 Department of Agriculture for Ireland. 



