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where the quantity of milk and its products was not 

 an object, the best form for bearing a good covering 

 of fat, and the animal which would produce a fine 

 beef, and in large quantity, at an early age, was the 

 aim to vhich all the great breeders sought to attain ; 

 breeds br draught or burden in this country at least 

 having been nearly superseded, and even on the Con- 

 tinent al last, coming to the public market, the above 

 mentioned qualifications are deemed most desirable. 

 Desirarest enumerates twenty French and Dutch 

 varieties or races, differing merely in the form, which 

 has peased the breeder. His Bos lemovicensis sup- 

 plies the Parisian market chiefly. They are kept 

 while young in the district of Perigord, and driven 

 to N)rmandy to be fattened and prepared for the 

 markit. This breed is of a pale colour, generally 

 whitt or tawny, strongly formed, with large bending 

 honv; their weight from 600 Ib. to 850 Ib. An- 

 othei the Race Gasconne, Bos aquitanicus, feeds to 

 near/ a similar weight, is also of a pale colour, and 

 has ;he horns enormously large. These are con- 

 sumed at Bourdeaux, and furnish the principal supply 

 for the French navy. B. avernus, reared on the 

 mountains of Auvergne, is employed at the age of 

 abut three years for tillage, and afterwards fattened. 

 It s of strong proportions, yet does not reach a heavy 

 weght. The colour is generally red or brown, and are 

 sbrt and point upwards. B viducassencis reaches 

 a arge size, with large white but short horns, and 

 rand at the tips, blotched with red and white, 



