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AMERICAN CATTLE. 



than flesh we give a portrait of a well matured, thorough bred 

 bull, at three years of age. 



Plate 22. Short-horn Bull. 



In the above portrait the wonderful fullness in every part of 

 the carcass is illustrated, putting on choice flesh in places where 

 the common cattle fail to give it, and making the animal valuable 

 all over, with no more offal than in a creature of a third less 

 size of an inferior breed. We consider this as showing in an 

 eminent degree, the distinction between the beef-producing and 

 the milk yielding tendency of the short-horn, in appearance. 

 The one is that of exceeding fullness, the other of a tendency, 

 in the cow, (plate 20,) to leanness, while giving much milk, 

 although the latter may feed equally well when no longer used 

 for the pail. In the following portrait, the same flesh-producing 

 tendency is shown in the female, as is given in the bull. 



