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centre of the back, the carcase large, the belly 

 heavy, the back-bone ridged, the chine thin and 

 hollow, the loin narrow, the udder square, large, 

 loose, and creased when empty, the milk veins 

 remarkably large and rising in knotted puffs ; 

 and this so general, that I scarcely ever saw a 

 famous milker that did not possess this point, 

 a general habit of leanness, hip bones high and 

 ill covered, and scarcely any part of the carcase 

 so formed and covered as to please an eye 

 that is accustomed to fat beasts of the finer 

 breeds/' 1 



The colour of the Suffolk cattle may be 

 inferred from a communication of Sir Thomas 

 Beevor's, published in the Bath Society's " Letters 

 and Papers : " " The cows you saw were bred 

 from the polled or horn-less Suffolk dun-coloured 

 cows (than which, for profit, though not for 

 beauty, I think, with the most intelligent Mr. 

 Young, there is not so valuable a breed in 

 England) by a Derbyshire black-and-white bull 2 

 given me by my friend, Lord Townshend. This 

 mixture produced their uncommon colour of 

 mouse and white, as well as that shape and 

 make which pleased you, and is so much 

 esteemed by the best judges of cattle ; their 

 heads and necks being small, their legs short, 

 carcases large and deep, and loins remarkably 



1 Quoted from Youatt's " Cattle," 1834, p. 174. 



2 A horned breed. 



