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ble points. If there is more weight in front, the fore legs are neces- 

 sarily wider apart, straighter, and more perpendicular than in the 

 Devon ; they are placed more mider the body rather than seeming 

 to be attached to the sides. The fore-arm is large and muscular, but 

 the legs, although coarser tlian those of the Devon, are small and 

 fine downwards, and particularly below the fetlock. The barrel is 

 round and deep — the back straight — no rising spinal processes are 

 to be seen, but rather a central depression ; and the line of tlie back, 

 if broken, is only done so by a lump of fat rising between the hips. 

 The belly and flank are capacious — there is room before for the 

 heart and lungs to prepare and circulate the blood, and there is room 

 behind, in the capacious belly, for the full development of all the 

 organs of digestion ; yet the beast is well ribbed home, the space 

 between the last rib and the hip-bone is often very small, and 

 there is no hanging heaviness of the belly or flank. The loins of 

 the Sussex ox are wide ; the hip-bone does not rise high, nor is it 

 ragged extertmlly ; but it is large and spread out, and the space 

 between the hips is well filled up. 



The tail, which is fine and thin, is set on lower than in the Devon, 

 yet the rump is nearly as straight, for the deficiency is supplied by a 

 mass of flesh and fat swelling above. The hind quarters are cleanly 

 made, and if the thighs appear to be straight without, there is plenty 

 of fulness within. 



The Sussex ox holds an intermediate place between the Devon and 

 Hereford, with much of the activity of the first, and the strength 

 of the second, and the propensity to fatten, and the beautiful, fine 

 grained flesh of both. Experience has shown that it possesses as 

 many of the good quahties of both as can be combined in one 

 frame. 



The Sussex ox is of a deep chestnut-red — some, however, pre- 

 fer a blood- bay : deviation from this color indicates some stain in 

 the breed. 



The hide of the true Sussex is soft and mellov/ ; a coarse, harsh, 

 thick hide denotes here, as in every other district, an ill-bred or 

 an unthrifty beast. The coat is short and sleek. There is seldom 

 found on the Sussex ox that profusion of soft and wavy, and, occa- 

 sionally, long hair, which, although it may have the appearance of 

 rouo'hness, is consistent with a mellow and vieldinoj hide, and one of 

 the truest indications of more than usual propensity to fatten. 



The Sussex cow, hke the Hereford one, is very inferior to the ox ; 

 she seems to be almost another kind of animal. The breeder has 

 endeavored, but with comparatively little success, to give to the 

 heifer the same points that the ox possesses. 



The Sussex cow ought to have a deep red color, the hair fine, and 

 the skin mellow, thin and soft ; a small head, a fine horn, thin clean 

 and transparent, which should run out horizontally, and afterwards 



