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.no means of a superior qualil}^ This instance 

 ordairy excellencL' is pronounced "not a singular 

 one" in the work alluded to ; but all will allow, we 

 think, that such products cannot be found anywhere 

 except among the very best cows. Instances of 

 great yields both of milk and butter for a single 

 week are on record in this country, from the im- 

 proved and the common kinds of cows, but we have 

 met with no account, properly authenticated, equal 

 to the above the season through. 



Some farmers in England have asserted, and the 

 opinion has been advanced in this country, that the 

 Short Horns are not iit for work. The correctness 

 of this may well be doubted. We know of no in- 

 stance where the improved stock have been used as 

 oxen ; they command too high a price as bulls to be 

 condemned to the yoke ; but instances have occur- 

 red in which the bulls have been worked on the farm, 

 and, as v/as to have been expected from their dispo- 

 sition, they proved perfectly docile and manageable. 

 To the above objection an English writer replies : 

 "They work admirably; but, surely, cattle which 

 are fit to go as profitably to the butcher at two years 

 old as any other breed at three or four, ought never, 

 as a general rule, to be placed in the yoke. No 

 beast, in the present advanced state of breeding, 

 ought to be put upon a system which arose out of 

 the necessity of obtaining compensation by work 

 for the loss attending a tardy maturity." 



The portraits of the celebrated bull Comet (fig. 1, 

 p. 134), bred by Mr. C. Colling, and of Viola (fig. 2, p. 

 135), bred by Mr. J. Whittaker, both animals of the 

 best blood and points, will render unnecessary any 

 comm.ent on their form. The colours of the Short 

 Horns, the improved variety, are red or white, or a 

 mixture of the two, combining in endless variety, 

 and producing very frequently a fine effect. The 

 white, it is very probable, they obtained from an 

 early cross with the white or wild breed ; and wher- 



