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moufe and white, as well as that (hape and make 

 which pleafed you, and is fo much efteemed by the 

 beft judges of cattle; their heads and necks being 

 ihiall, their legs fhort, carcafes large and deep, 

 and loins remarkably broad; and being of greater 

 weight in feemingly lefs compafs than any hearts 

 I ever fawj whethe'", from being without horns, 

 from being conftantly kept in fhedded yards or 

 houfes during the winter, from their nature, or 

 from thefe caufes altogether, they are fo tame and 

 docile, that I never knew any mifchief done by 

 them to any other animal. In the fummer, for the 

 fake of Ihade, and in the winter for fhelter, they 

 herd together in the manner of flieep; without of- 

 fering the leaft injury to each other. They feed in 

 the park in fummer; and in winter, fuch of them 

 as are not 'in full milk, are fed in the yards on 

 barley or oat rtraw, and on the leaves and offal of 

 the turnips, which are given to thofe which have 

 more lately calved, and are kept in the houfe; thofe 

 houfed have therefore, you fee, the roots, and beft 

 of the turnips or cabbages with ftraw, (for hay is 

 never given here to cows.) Their average profit 

 per annum, when a regular account of them was 

 kept a few years fmce, was, after all charges de- 

 duced for keeping, and every fair article of ex- 

 I pence, four pounds per cow; but as this profit will 

 probably be found fhort of the profit of many other 

 breeds 



