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AMERICAN CATTLE. 



Eng., copied from "The Farmers' Magazine." We have seen 

 many equally good ones in the United States. 



Plate 24. Short-horn Ox. 



It is held, as a flesh-producing animal, that in early maturity, 

 weight of meat, ripeness of points, and giving the most flesh in 

 the best places, the great merit of the short-horn is found. 

 We have spoken of the Devon, the Highland, and Galloway, as 

 having flesh of finer grain, and tenderer quality, and bearing a 

 better price in a fastidious market. But choice purchasers are 

 few, compared with the mass, and he who feeds cattle for the 

 general market, wants the animal which makes the quickest and 

 most profitable returns for the capital invested, and the food con- 

 sumed. The short-horn at three years, past, well fatted, is fit 

 for slaughter, equally with the Devon or Hereford at the same 

 age, or the Highland Scot or Galloway, at four years, or the 

 "native" at five or six years. He is claimed by many to be a 



