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treatments, and selection continued for many ages, cattle 

 have assumed several distinct types called breeds. These 

 breeds show certain characteristics that have become defi- 

 nite and fixed by time, and by the different uses or pur- 

 poses that have controlled their selection. "Where broad 

 plains encouraged the raising of beef, the mind and hand 

 of man have selected for propagation in each generation 

 those animals only that were best adapted for this pur- 

 pose. In the same manner where broken surfaces favored 

 the production of milk, there the best milkers were re- 

 served from each generation, and so on until the purpose 

 of man became fixed in the main features of the animal. 



4. Our native cattle represent the varied wants and 

 indefinite purposes of a newly-settled country and a mixed 

 people. They are the result of original stock imported 

 from nearly every quarter of the globe, and they have not 

 been bred to any one special use. They are, therefore, of all 



Hungarian Oxen. 



