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more and richer beef, at a much earher a^e, and wiih 

 less feed than is commonly required for native stock 5 

 and richer milk, and better vNorkin^i: oxen than any they 

 before had, their mirid-s will be made up as to the exclu- 

 sion of all other breeds of horned cattle from their farms. 

 But this is not all ; their stock will be viewed by their 

 less enterprisinoj and more cautious neighbours : motives 

 of interest and self satisfaction derived from the treasure 

 in possession, will excite the owner to diffuse a know. 

 ItdgQ of its value, which will be every year more and 

 more enhanced, and the demand for it be enlarcjed, from 

 the increasin^^ numbers annually engagiiig in the aj^ricul- 

 tural life. Hence a source of revenue will be secured 

 to himself and family. 



The peculiar marks which designate this breed from 

 all others, are, capacious barrel shaped bodies, straight 

 backs, broad loins, small neck and head, full chines, 

 leaving no hollows behind the shcAilders, clean chaps, 

 bright and prominent eyes, deep chests projecting well 

 before the legs : fore le^s clean^ straight^ and standing 

 wide; not knock-kneed (or in-kneed,) wide hips and 

 round; rump lying in a horizontal direction, not sinking 

 backwards ; the tail set on so high as to take in the same 

 line with the back, and lastly, small bones. A portrait 

 of a bull of this breed, may be seen in the *' Archives 

 of Useful KnoW'ledge, vol. i. p. 358,'^ and plates of seve- 

 ral more, and of cows of the same breed, in " Takers 

 Survey of Yorkshire. '^^ 



There is another breed of cattle, the Scotch, or Kvloes, 

 well deserving the attention of the American improver, 

 on account of their extreme hardy constitution, and ten* 

 dency to early fatting on grass alone ; and of their filling 

 up a vacancy in the supply of good beef about August 

 and September, a time, when the heavy cattle of the pre- 

 ceding season have all been killed off, and the stock of 

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