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AMERICAN CATTLE 



readily managed. Her udder is soft, tidy in shape, with thin, 

 silky hair upon it, clean, taper teats, easily drawn, and every 

 way satisfactory to her keeper. 



"We submit a portrait of a well bred cow, dry of her milk and 

 fatted, in which will readily be seen the fully developed charac- 

 teristics of her race. 



Plate 3. Devon Cow. 



As an evidence of the milking qualities of the Devons, very 

 considerable dairies of them have long been kept in England. 

 In Youatt, is an account by Mr. Conyers, of Epping, who, in 

 the year 1788, kept a dairy of them. "He preferred the Devons 

 on account of their large produce, whether in milk, butter, or by 

 suckling. He thought that they held their milk longer than any 

 other sort that he had tried; that they were liable to fewer 

 disorders in their udders; and being of small size, they did not 

 eat more than half what larger cows consumed. He thus sums 

 up his account of them : ' Upon an average, ten cows gave 

 me sixty pounds of butter per week, in summer, and twenty-four 



