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great numbers of skilful and experienced persons 

 have, for a long series of years, not only adopted 

 this breed in preference to any other, but have se- 

 lected out of it the animals they deemed of superior 

 quality, to breed from them alone ; so that now it 

 may be called a picked and chosen race, from which 

 all beasts having any imperfection have been care- 

 fully excluded. 



The man who introduces this valuable breed of 

 cattle into any neighbourhood of farmers is a bene- 

 factor to the community, and should be regarded as 

 such. Prejudice may decry, and ignorance may 

 sneer, bui we know the good sense of farmers will 

 not always slumber ; and in the approval of the in- 

 telligent, and the certainty of ultimate profit, he will 

 find his reward. 



Devonshire Cattle. — While it may be affirmed, with 

 great truth, that the present beautiful and superior 

 breed of Improved Short Horns is strictly artificial, 

 and while some fears may be justly entertained lest 

 the valuable qualities for which they are distin- 

 guished have not become so fully constitutional as 

 to be beyond the possibility of relapse, we here 

 bring to the notice of the farmer a breed of cattle 

 scarcely inferior in any quality to the Short Horns, 

 and of which no apprehensions can be entertained 

 that the type of these distinguishing qualities is eva- 

 nescent, and not durably incorporated in the consti- 

 tution and race. 



The north of Devon has long been celebrated for 

 a beautiful breed of cattle, in activity of work and 

 aptitude to fatten unrivalled. The place where they 

 are found in the greatest perfection is in the vicinity 

 of Portlock and Biddleford, along the Bristol Chan- 

 nel, in the county of Devon. From the earliest rec- 

 ords the breed has here remained the same ; or, if not 

 quite as perfect in general as at the present mo- 

 ment, yet altered in no essential point until the last 

 thirty years. No persevering or successful at- 



