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CATTLE. 



old, however excellent they may be, for the farmer believes that if 

 they are kept longer tliey do not get a stock equally good, and par- 

 ticularly that their calv^^s are not so large after that period. Nothing 

 can be more erroneous or mischievous. A bull is never in finer con- 

 dition than from four to seven years old. 



Having obtained by accident, or by exertion, a good breed of 

 j»ilkers, the Suffolk people have preserved them almost by mere 

 chance, and without any of the care and attention which their value 

 demanded. 



SUFFOLK BULL. 



The Suffolk cow, poor and angular as slie may look, fattens with 

 a rapidity greater than could be expected from her gaunt appear- 

 ance. Whence she obtained the faculty of yielding so much milk, is 

 a question that no one has yet solved. Her progenitor, the Galloway, 

 has it not. The Holderness could scarcely be concerned ; for more 

 than a hundred years ago, the Suffolk dun was as celebrated as a 

 milker as the breed of this county is at present, and the Holderness 

 had not then been introduced into the county of Suffolk. The fat- 

 tening property derived from the northern breed is yet but little 

 impaired. The cow is easily fattened to forty or five-and-forty stones, 

 (500 to 600 lbs.) and the quality of her meat is excellent. 



