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rising five years old. The graziers and drovers 

 then take them,, in great numbers, to the fairs in 

 Norfolk and Suffolk. This is usually done before the 

 turnip feeding season. From thence the greatest 

 part are removed, in the winter and spring, when 

 fat, to supply the London markets, where they are 

 readily sold at high prices. Few cattle, of their 

 weight, bring so much money in the Smithfield 

 market. It is a remarkable circumstance, that a 

 Lincolnshire and a Galloway Bullock, sent at the 

 same time, and from the same village, to Smithneld, 

 sold for the same money, although the Scot was 

 only half the weight of the Lincolnshire animal. 



The Galloway cattle,, in most respects, except of 

 size, and being destitute of horns, resemble the 

 Lancashire or Long-horned breed. Their shape 

 and colour are nearly the same; but in form they 

 are somewhat shorter. Some few of the animals, 

 in every other respect polled, have two little useless 

 horns, from two to four inches long, which hang 

 down loose, and are not, as in other cattle, inserted 

 into the skull. The weight of the Oxen is usually 

 from forty to sixty or seventy stone. 



The fat, in this breed, is laid upon the most 

 valuable parts; and their beef is well marbled or 

 mixed with fat. Their hides are of a medium be- 

 twixt those of the long-horned and short-horned 

 breeds, neither so thick as the former, nor so thin 

 as the latter. 



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