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j uices, being duly formed from an alternate mixture of fat and lean, 

 And, what is equally important, whether in the yoke or for the dairy, 

 they have great docility and good temper. Within the last thirty 

 years the Devons, by due crossings, have been greatly improved ; they 

 have become heavier and better milkers. And. although there is a 

 general opinion that as milkers they are inferior to several other breeds 

 so far as the quantity of milk is concerned, the quality of their milk 

 is by all admitted to be unsurpassed. This, however, by their advo- 

 cates is denied ; and Mr. Bloomfield, the manager of the late Lord 

 Leicester's estate at Holkham, has challenged England to milk an 

 equal number of cows of any breed, against forty pure Devons, to be 

 selected out of his own herd, without as yet having found a com- 

 petitor. See Steven's edition of " Youatt and Martin on Cattle." 



DEVON BULL. 



DEW. A dense, moist vapor, falling on the earth in the form of 

 a mistling rain, while the sun is below the horizon. The most plen- 

 tiful deposits occur, when the weather is clear and serene ; very little 

 is ever deposited when the weather is not so. It is never seen on 

 nights both cloudy and windy. It is well known, likewise, that a 

 reduction in the temperature of the air, and of the surface of the 

 earth, always accompanies the falling of dew, the surface on which it 

 is deposited being, however, colder than the air above. These phe- 

 nomena admit of an easy and elegant explanation from the well 

 known effect of the radiation of caloric from bodies. This radiation 



