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grazing, I prefer Herefords for stall-feeding, Durhams ; 

 having found that the latter increase faster in weight, and 

 that if highly fed, they become more even carcases of beef, 

 and are less likely than many of the Herefords, to prove 

 patchy. It is said, and I think must be admitted, that from 

 their larger frame, that Durhams consume more food than 

 Herefords. As I am not biassed in favor of either, I think 

 it fair to state what J. T. Senior, Esq. of Broughton, in the 

 Vale of Aylesbury, says, relating to these two breeds. Mr. 

 S says, that for many years past, he has himself sold, at the 

 Christmas Smithfield great market, a drove of his best-fed 

 Hereford oxen ; that near his drove there has been, for 

 several years, Sir Charles Knightley's, of fine, well-bred, and 

 well-fed Durhams; having thus had a good opportunity of 

 examining them, he is convinced that he has yearly ob- 

 tained as high a price for some of his Herefords, as has 

 been made of some of Sir Charles's Durhams, which 

 weighed each twenty stone more. I have seen the Fawsley 

 and the Aylesbury land ; the former is good, but the latter 

 is better. As many of the London butchers well know the 

 superiority of the land of the Vale of Aylesbury, this may 

 induce them to give an extra price for Mr. Senior's oxen, 

 in the expectation, and particularly as they are older beasts, 

 of finding in them an extra quantity of fat, for which, at 

 Christmas, there is always a very great demand. 



The old Norfolk breed of cattle were bad. The late Mr. 

 Bakewell said, they would be fairly shapen animals, if their 

 bodies were turned upside down. The late Mr. Reeve, of 

 Wighton, near Walsingham, who was a judicious and long- 

 experienced breeder of both sheep and cattle, so improved 

 the breed as to have a herd of well-shaped polled cows ; 

 appearing as though they had a cross with the Galloway 

 Scots. I have often seen, in Smithfield, well-formed and 

 well- fatted Norfolk homebreds, much resembling Gallo- 

 ways, excepting in colour. As the Norfolk land requires a 

 great quantity of good manure, it answers there, to keep the 

 beasts a long time in the stalls ; therefore all the Norfolk 

 stall-fed beasts be they of what breed they may arrive in 

 Smithfield better fed than beasts from any other county, 

 the butchers, therefore, will give a greater price for them. 

 They are, in the spring, the chief supply of best beef, for 



