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CATTLE. 



The more perfect speciraens of the Devon breed are thus distin- 

 guished. ' The horn of the hull ought to be neither too low nor too 

 high, tapering at the points, not too thick at the root, white below, 

 and of a yellow or waxy color at the tip. The eye should be clear, 

 bright, and prominent, showing much of the white, and have around 

 it a circle of a dark orange color. The forehead should be flat, in- 

 dented, and small, for, by the smallness of the forehead, the purity 

 of the breed is very much estimated. The cheek should be small, 

 and the muzzle fine : the nose must be of a clear yellow. The nos- 

 tril sliould be high and open : the hair curled about the head. The 

 neck should be thick, and that sometimes almost to a fault. 



Excepting in the head and neck, the form of the bull does not 

 materially differ from that of the ox, but he is considerably smaller. 

 There are exceptions, however, to this rule. 



WORKING DEVON OX. 



The head of the ox is small, very singularly so, relatively to his 

 bulk ; yet it has a striking breadth of forehead, It, is clean and free 

 from flesh about the jaws. The eye is very prominent, and the ani- 

 mal has a pleasing vi\ acity of countenance, distinguishing it from 

 the heavy aspect of many other breeds. Its neck is long and thin, 

 admirably adapting it for the collar, or the more common and rudei 

 yoke. 



It is accounted one of the characters of good cattle, that the line 

 of the neck from the horns to the wi.hers should scarcely deviate 



