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of elevated countries, than to the larger breeds of the plains, 

 their general form is light and graceful. All writers on live- 

 stock, speak of these cattle, when pure, in the highest terms. 

 CULLY, DICKSON, MARSHALL, LAWRENCE, BERRY, ROBERT- 

 SON, all express but one opinion; while PARKINSON says, they 

 are a model for all persons who breed oxen for the yoke. 



But we are not to be understood as either advancing or en- 

 dorsing an opinion that they are superior to all other breeds 

 in every respect. Tha* they possess certain points of superior 

 and peculiar excellence, we cannot doubt. On account of their 

 activity and hardiness, they are admirably calculated for the 

 draught, and they feed well at an early age when not employ- 

 ed in labour; but compared with the Durhams they are very 

 deficient milkers. We consider the pure Durham, in the 

 aggregate, as fully equal to the Devonshire. We should be 

 glad to see both breeds more widely diffused throughout our 

 country. 



THE WORKING DEVON Ox. 



Proper Form and Shape of Cattle. With all the lightness 

 of the Devonshire ox, there is a point about him, disliked in 

 the blood or riding-horse, and not always approved in the 

 horse of light draught, the legs are far under the chest, or 

 rather the breast projects far and wide before the legs. We 

 see the advantage of this in the beast of slow draught, who 

 rarely breaks into a trot, except when he is goaded on in 

 catching times, and the division of whose foot secures him 

 from stumbling. The lightness of the other parts of his form, 

 however, counterbalances the appearance of heaviness here. 



