CHAP. III. 



"POINTS" OF CATTLE. 



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obviously other " points," if so they ma.y be termed, which are of great 

 importance in estimating the value of an animal, but which cannot be so 

 marked or " ticketed," so to say, as to be visible to the eye, and reckoned 

 up like the items of an account ; such are the quality of the animal, its 



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vigour as a breeder, &c., &c. Even the " touch," to which so much 

 importance is attached and which in some scales of points has a certain 

 value set against it, is one which, being a variable quality, will have, 

 as in practice it has, a variable value. On matters such as these 

 each individual who is examining an animal has his own opinion. 



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