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cafes of accidental lofs of milk, or when old and unfit for 

 the dairy, with many other requifites and objediions, partly 

 founded in fpeculation, and partly founded in fafti all 

 confpire to be admirably qualified in the native cow of a 

 particular diftridl in Devonfhire. 



In fpeaking thus pointedly of this breed of cows, it may 

 not be improper, to ftate more particularly, and at large, 

 the leading qualities, and chara«Sl:eriftics of the animal. 



It has before been obferved that they are naturally hardy, 

 and will preferve themfelves in good condition, whilit giving 

 milk, upon an inferior herbage: it may alfo be interred 

 from the firft coft of the heifers, that this breed are not fo 

 heavy as to poach, to the injury of the wet paftures ; nor 

 on the other hand, are they fo light and confined in their 

 frame, as not to pay extremely well for grazing upon the 

 richeft lands. They are particularly quiet in pafture, docile, 

 and patent of controul : in their own country the fleers are 

 very generally applied to the draught, being remarkably 

 adlive, and four of them well trained in a plough, will do 

 an acre of land in the fame time that it would be ploughed 

 with three horfes. In both cafes a driver is found neceifary. 

 During the fummer feafon, the day's work fhould be divided 

 (as is the pradice in Devonfhire) into two journies of four 

 and a half or five hours each, and the fteers fhould be 

 baited in the middle of the day upon green food, mown and 

 carried to them, or with chopped hay in the flable. The 

 fteers fhould be broken to the yoke, and receive their firfl: 

 training at two years old: they fhould be worked very gently 

 for a twelvemonth, after which time they will become fo 

 far feafoned, as to bear conftant and regular work, which 

 with due care, they may be put to, till they are fix years old. 

 At this age they are generally fold, or grazed by the farmer 

 at home, weighing upon an average, when completely fat, 



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