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luxuriant pasture. It will be long, perhaps, before they will be 

 favorites with the butchers, for the fifth quarter will not usually 

 weigh well in them. Their fat is mingled with the flesh rather than 

 separated in the form of tallow ; yet this would give a more beautiful 

 appearance to the meat, and should enhance its price to the con- 

 sumer. 



Two circumstances, however, may partially account for their not 

 being thought to succeed so well when grazed : they are not able to 

 travel so far on the same keeping as the Highland cattle ; and, from 

 their great value as milkers, they are often kept till they are too old 

 to fatten to advantage, or for their beef to be of the best quality. 



