140 PRINCIPLES OF BREEDING. 



be done to advantage by large-framed animals, however 

 good their parentage/' 



The Devons have been less extensively, and more 

 recently, introduced than the Short-horn, but the 

 experience of those who have fairly tried them fully 

 sustains the opinions given above, and they prom- 

 ise to become a favorite and prevailing breed. The 

 usual objection made to them by those who have 

 been accustomed to consider improvement in cattle to 

 be necessarily connected with enlargement of size, is, 

 that they are too small. But their size instead of being 

 a valid objection, is believed to be a recommendation, 

 the Devons being as large as the fertility of New Eng- 

 land soils generally are capable of feeding fully and 

 profitdblij. 



Their qualities as working oxen are unrivalled, no 

 other breed so uniformly furnishing such active, docile, 

 strong and hardy workers as the Devons, and their 

 uniformity is such as to render it very easy to match 

 them. Without possessing so early maturity as the 

 Short-horns, they fatten readily and easily at from four 

 to six years old, and from their compact build and well 

 balanced proportions usually weigh more than one ac- 

 customed to common cattle would anticipate. 



The Devons are not generally deep milkers but the 

 milk is richer than that of most other breeds, and some 



