14 HEADS. 



The head is the seal of character, and bears its 

 stamp. Breeding does much for it. From seeing 

 no other part can one infer so much. If, therefore, 

 you wish to see but one part of the male, study the 

 head above all ; in the female, the head and the 

 udder furnish a key to the rest. 



Upon this point, Mr. Henry Corbet 1 has written 

 well. " The shoulder, no doubt, answers very much 

 for shape and symmetry and frame, but the head 

 answers for everything. If you go for breed, you 

 look, above all, to the head ; if your aim be style or 

 fashion, you must seek this in the head, as nine times 

 in ten that very accommodating phrase known as 

 ' quality ' should prove itself by a good head. . . . 

 A scale of points for one or two certain breeds has 

 already been drawn out, but in none of these is suf- 

 ficient importance, at least as I am led to think, 

 attached to the head of an animal as the main index 

 to N his purity of blood, strength of constitution, and 

 actual fitness for that service for which it is intend- 

 ed. ... Early maturity or quick feeding is the 

 chief recommendation of a Short-horn ; and so, when 

 we look one in the face, we must bear in mind that 

 what we want is, as Mr. Carr puts it, ' a placidity and 

 composure of mind, a phlegmatic disposition sug- 

 gestive of fattening propensity.' In fact, a frisky 

 Short-horn should be something of an anomaly. 



" Not so the Devon. I should myself have a fancy 

 for a certain wild ness or boldness in the head of a 

 pure North Devon ; and when Captain Davy says this 



1 Bath and West of Eng. Soc. Jour., quoted in Ohio Ag. Kept. 1871. 



