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CTCLOPJIDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



Elegance, speed, and muscular activity are the qualities for which the 

 frame-work of the horse seem best suited. In the ox there is also the 

 beauty of symmetry as shown in smooth lines, when fat, and the devel- 

 opment of great strength with slow motion. Hence, the limbs are 

 straighter and more massive than in the horse. 



OUTLINE OF FAT BULLOCKS. 



In the OX we find the same two plates at the top of the head, that 

 were noticed in the horse. In the ox and other horned animals these 



plates have a considerable space be- 

 tween them, as shown in the accom- 

 panying cut giving a vertical section 

 of the head. This space is filled with 

 cells having bony ridges passing from 

 the inner to the outer plate, or table, 

 securing firmness ; and these cells 

 form large and strong sockets for the 

 horns. The cavity of the brain is, in 

 VERTICAL SECTION OF THE HEAD. thc OX, about onc-fouith the size of the 

 skull— the other parts being occupied by the organs of smell, the teeth 

 and the jaws, which are exhibited in vertical sections here given. 



