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and excellent at work, and good milkers. These were desirable 

 qualities, and particularly as mingling with the Highland breed. 

 Accordingly, bulls from Fife were introduced into Aberdeen, and 

 the progeny so answered as to be generally adopted, and become 

 the foundation of what is now regarded as the Aberdeenshire native 

 breed. 



KINTORE OX, FATTED. 



The horns do not taper so finely, nor stand so much upward as in 

 tne West Highlanders, and they are also whiter ; the hair is shorter 

 and thinner ; the ribs cannot be said to be flat, but the chest is 

 deeper in proportion to the circumference ; and the buttock and 

 thighs are likewise thinner. The color is usually black, but some- 

 times brindled : they are heavier in carcass ; they give a larger quan- 

 tity of milk ; but they do not attain maturity so early as the West 

 Highlanders, nor is their flesh quite so beautifully marbled : yet, at 

 a proper age, they fatten as readily as the others, not only on gocd 

 pasture, but on that which is somewhat inferior. 



