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deep dewlaps. This form being found dif- 

 advantageous to the butcher, encreafing the 

 quantity of the coarfer parts, and reducing 

 the weight of the prime pieces, the breeder 

 endeavoured to enlarge the hind-quarters ; 

 and had he (lopped when he had got tp the 

 happy medium, he would have wrought a 

 good work. But the faihion was fet; '" clod- 

 dy" bullocks were in eftimation ; and their 

 evil qualities were overlooked until they wcve 

 rendered too obvious, and the conftcjuences 

 above-mentioned had taken place. 



The form and fize of the PRESENT BREED 

 PF THE VALE may be leen in the following 

 dimenfions of a working ox rifing five years 

 old ; above par as to form, but fomeyvhat 

 beneath it in point of fize. 

 Height at the withers, four feet eleven inches. 

 of the brifket from the ground, 



twenty inches. 



Sniulleft girt, fevcn feet four inches. 

 Largeft girt, eight feet five inches. 

 Created width at the (boulder, twenty-two 



and a half inches. 

 at the buckle, twenty-three 



skid a half inches. 



Grtatcft 



