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about 14 hands at the shoulder, very handsome, possessing fine 

 silky coats and thin skins, the colour of the skins invariably 

 black and of the hair covering them white or grey, generally 

 black about the shoulders and neck, the rest of the body being 

 white. Some are much darker than others in colour, but generally 

 white predominates. They are easy to distinguish from other . 

 Punjab breeds, possessing well-marked differences. The first 

 point which strikes us is the head, which is very bovine in 

 appearance, that is to say, the frontal and parietal region is 

 very broad and massive, the frontals specially are broad and the 

 horn cores are set on very wide apart ; the horns themselves being 

 short, stumpy, of great girth, and terminating in a broadish 

 point. Their direction is in almost all cases outwards and 

 upwards. The forehead arches very considerably, and is broad, 

 dipping again at a level with the superior commissure of the eyes. 

 It again curves slightly forwards just above the mufHe. The 

 muffle is small, the jaw light; the eye large and mild, the ear 

 of medium size. The head is carried fairly erect, but in some 

 cases is slightly below the line of the back. The neck is very 

 short comparatively. The dewlap well developed as is the 

 hump. The chest is good, broad and deep, the shoulder good, 

 sloping and fairly light; the limbs strong and of medium 

 length. The line of the back is fairly straight, dipping very 

 slightly immediately behind the hump and rising again very 

 slightly to the croup, which is of good conformation in these 

 animals. The girth and belly measurements are good, and the 

 loins broad and powerful. These animals, although appearing 

 to be rather long in barrel, are exceedingly well ribbed up. The 

 tail is long and very tapering. The sheath large and more or 

 less triangular ". This description applies equally to the Dajal 

 cattle. 



A very hardy type of bullocks is bred in the Kachi or 

 riverain tract of the Rohjan illaqa and the Mirpur tahsil of the 

 Sukkur district near Massuwah Channel taking out from the 

 Indus. These animals are strong and sturdy but much smaller 

 and more clumsy in appearance than those of the Bhagnari breed. 

 They are much sought after for work on the wells of the riverain 

 tracts Multan, Muzaffargarh and the Derajat, and are imported 

 as far east as Sialkot, Gujranwala and Amritsar. They are ex- 

 tremely hardy, and will thrive on any kind of fodder. 



In these western breeding grounds the young bulls are care- 

 fully kept apart from the cows, and there is little of the immature 

 breeding which is so much to be regretted in the central and 

 southern Punjab districts. The bulls which are privately owned, 

 ?we kept at stud and the cows are brought to them. The bulls 



