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ing winter, and as large ones, besides yielding 

 a greater supply of milk, are more economically 

 housed than small ones, there is no objection to 

 the course taken by our dairy farmers, consider- 

 ing how easily, when their cattle become too de- 

 licate, their vigour can be renewed by a cross 

 with breeds in a more natural condition. 



The small Suffolk polled cows maintain their 

 ground because reared on a poor pasturage, 

 for which they are suitable, but they are un- 

 fitted for a rich one 



The history of our cattle intended for the 

 butcher is very different. There is every 

 reason to suppose that nearly all the existing 

 breeds have lasted in their present form for 

 ages. The most numerous are the Scotch, 

 which are in a state very little removed from 

 one of nature, exhibiting excellent forms, and 

 yielding unrivalled beef. 



It is an unfailing characteristic of wild 

 animals to die under severe hardships, or 

 wholly to recover, those of the same race 

 never exhibiting the essential differences of 

 form displayed by domesticated animals kept 

 in a very factitious state, some exhibiting long, 

 while others display short, backs — some long 



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