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prefer the cheapeft to the befl fhaped. Notwithftanding 

 this indifference to breed, the long-horned are the moft 

 frequent, a very diftinft variety, however, from the 

 Englifh breed of that denomination; their horns grow 

 downwards, and are thin, ours grow upwards, and are 

 ihick\ the Englifh cattle have fmall bellies, and broad 

 thighs and rumps; our cattle have large bellies and 

 thin hips, and, upon the whole, form a complete con- 

 traft with that celebrated breed; but they are good 

 milkers when well fed, and, from their fize, which is 

 between three and four hundred weight, probably bet- 

 ter adapted for the pafture of this country tjian a 

 heavier or nicer kind, which would demand a greater 

 quantity of food, and more care than their owners are 

 difpofed to beftow on them. As I have already men- 

 tioned, the objecl: of 1 cattle in the county of Down is 

 milk; in this the farmers are tolerably fuccefsful, the 

 ufual quantity of milk for two months after calving 

 being from twelve to twenty quarts per day; the latter 

 quantity is only to be obtained from the befl cows, fed 

 in the beft manner, and even that has been furpafTed, 

 but not in many inftances. What I have faid is meant 

 to apply to the general flock of the country; in the 

 hands' of gentlemen fome cattle are to be met with of 

 a fuperior kind. In the neighbourhood of Waring's- 

 town was formerly a very fine breed, brought there by 

 the late Mr. Waring, from the late Lord Mafierene's, 

 at Antrim, who more than fifty years ago obtained 

 c c 2 there 



