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CATTLE. 



length, turn up ; as do the horns of 

 they are shorter in the leof shorter in 

 haunches are heavy and wide ; although 

 mellow, and they thrive with rapidity. 



those on the mountains ; 



the body ; their loins and 

 the hair is thick, the hide is 



KERRY cow. 



This breed is now not to be met with pure, exept inland on the 

 mountains ; being nearly worn out elsewhere by the repeated crosses 

 with the Leicester, Hereford, and Devon ; but for the dairy, all 

 the farmers still prefer those cows with most of the native Irish 

 blood. 



The other breed is of a larger size. It is the old or the partially 

 improved Craven or Lancashire beast. It is the true long-horn ; the 

 horns first taking a direction outward, then forming a curve, and 

 returning towards the face, sometimes threatening to pferce the bones 

 of the nose, at other times so to cross before the muzzle that the 

 animal is unable to graze. 



The following cut represents this large variety of Irish cattle', and 

 is evidently identical with the Craven or Lancashire. In Tipperary, 

 Limerick, Meath, a great part of Munster, and particularly in Ros- 

 common, many of these cattle are found, which are most valuable 

 animals. 



