MIDDLE-HORNED CATTLE — THE DEVON AND THE SUSSEX. 



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best, if not the very best, of domesticated cattle, when we consider the 

 ease with which they are kept, their powers of withstanding extreme heat 

 and cold, and their valuable working qualities ; for they are able to per- 

 form fully as much work as the horse in plowing, especially in small 

 fields where there is much turning. 



IV. Working Qualities of the Devons. 

 We have known them to keep fully up with horses, day after day, in 

 heavy plowing — a yoke of Devon steers at the beam, and a pair of horses 

 ahead. So, in stubble plowing ; a single yoke of Devon steers, Aveek in 

 and week out, would do fully as much work on small lands as a good 

 pair of horses ; and they turn the furrows quite as steadily as the horse 

 team. The horses would gain something in going straight ahead, but in 

 cominc: about the Devon steers always made it up. This was when the 



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 steers were fed grain the same as the horses. Wh(m both are kept on 

 grass, the Devons will do more work than any pair of hjorscs of the same 

 weight. 



In catching times, in hauling hay and grain to the stack, we have 

 driven Devon steers at a six-mile trot in going back light ; and their 

 wonderful tractability, under kind but firm training, certainly makes 

 them most admirable teams for new or thinly-settled districts. For log- 

 ging in the woods, or hauling logs to the mill, there are no better or 

 quicker teams, and it is surprising, under good keeping, the load they 

 will start, and the power with which they will move it along the road. 

 V. Their Deceiving Appearance. 



The Devons are essentially muscular cattle. They are far heavier than 

 they look. This is owing to their fine bone — nearly as hard as that of a 

 blood horse — their round, compact form, and the full flesh they carry. 



