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tendency to milk, and were exhibited as would-be rivals of the Short- 

 hornsat that time in the height of popular favor. Their general ap- 

 pearance was very like the description given of the earlier unimproved 

 Herefords, and this, with the similarity in their markings, would lead us 

 to suppose, that they may have originally sprung from the same 

 channel. 



Our illustration was re-engraved by permission, expressly for this 

 purpose, from a lithograph made for the Department of State, and was 

 originally from a photograpn. 



