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shoulder, when looked at from behind ; the fore-legs wide ; round and 

 straight in the barrel, and free from a rising back-bone ; no hanging 

 heaviness in the belly ; wide across the loin ; the space between the 

 hip-bone and the first rib very small ; the hip-bone not rising high, 

 but being large and wide; the loin, and space between the hips, to be 

 flat and wide, but the fore part of the carcass round ; long and straight 

 in the rump, and wide in the tip ; the tail to lay low for the flesh to 

 swell above it ; the legs not too long ; neither thick nor thin on the 

 thigh ; the leg thin ; shut well in the twist ; no fulness on the outside 

 of the thigh, but all of it within ; the . squareness behind, common in 

 all long-horned beasts, greatly objected to ; the finer and thinner in the 

 tail the better. 



" Of these points the Sussex beasts are apt to be more deficient in 



Fig. 7. Sussex Bull, "Jubilee" (826). 



Winner of the Champion Prize given by the Sussex Herd Book Society for the best male 

 in the SUSSPX classes, at the Jubilee Show of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 

 Windsor, 1889. Bred and exhibited by Mr. Charles Child, of Park House, Slinfold, 

 Horsham, Sussex. ' 



the shoulder than in any other part. A well-made ox stands straight, 

 and nearly perpendicularly, on small clean legs. A large bony leg is a 

 very bad point, but the legs should move freely, and rather under the 

 bod}' than as if attached to the sides. The horns should push a little 

 forward, spreading moderately, and turning up once. The horn of the 

 Devon, which very much resembles that of the Sussex, but is small 

 and lighter, is longer, and rises generally higher. The straightness of 

 the back line is sometimes broken, in very fine beasts, by a lump 

 between the hips." 



Says Mr. William Housman, in the Journal of the Royal Agricul- 

 tural Society, 1889 : 



" Surely, if the Sussex breeders have not yet reduced their bulls to 

 feminine fineness, nor shown them always in the condition of Smith- 

 field steers, their cattle may rest their claims to favour as beef-makers 

 upon the merits of the cows and heifers at the Royal and South- 



