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A calf entirely white is generally rejected, 

 under a notion that white cattle are of a ten- 

 der nature j that they are peculiarly fubjecl: 

 to loufmefs ; and that they are difliked by 

 their affociates ! The fineft ox I ever knew 

 pf the Holdernefs breed was white. The 

 neft ox I ever faw of the Tees-water breed 

 was white. One of the fineft cows now in 

 the Vale is white. Neverthelefs, valuable 

 calves are annually fent to the butcher, merely 

 becaufe they are all white. The fmalleft 

 fpeck of colouring ; even the tip of an ear, 

 Ted or black ; faves them from profcrip- 

 tion : under a notion, no doubt, that it har- 

 dens their nature; defends them from lice j 

 and renders them acceptable to their com- 

 panions : a vulgar error, which is not con- 

 lined to this Diftrict; but which ought, in 

 ji>y opinion-, to be univerfally exploded. 



3. Gelding Calves. Oxen in this country 

 (as probably in others) are peculiarly fub- 

 jecl to a ftoppage in the inteftines; owing, 

 it is believed, to the " blood firings" of 

 the teftieles being left in the body at the 

 jime of gelding. The fact feems to be, that 



