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BULLS. 



generation which it passes, denoting that they, in turn f 

 will transmit the same to their progeny. Also, hav- 

 ing descended through milking stock, we reasonably 

 expect deep milkers in our cows. As to color, that is 

 governed by fancy or fashion. Provided it be white or 

 red, or a mixture of the two- — let them have a clean, 

 flesh-colored nose, without spot or blemish, also a light 

 ring around the eyes. And be on your guard against 

 looseness, flabbiness, flat ribs, and a general tendency 

 to run into offal ; for with those qualities you get great 

 consumers, bad handlers with poor constitutions, and a 

 general tendency to detereoration. 



Keep your calves growing, from the time they 

 are dropped until fully matured, never allowing a 

 week to pass without a corresponding growth of your 

 young animal, and were I to present my own views, 

 I would say give new milk in liberal quantities for 

 three months at least, then gradually change to 

 skimmed milk, with shorts or oats, and if in winter, a 

 few sliced carrots daily ; always recollecting that with- 

 out a good start with your calves, you seldom get 

 superior animals. Also, the practice of putting young 

 heifers at breeding is injurious. No heifer should be 

 allowed to produce before she is two and one-half 

 years old, no matter if she be large and thrifty. 



As to their excellency, we claim for them great 

 aptitude to take on flesh, making a greater per cent, 

 of beef than anv other breed, and that of an excellent 

 quality, in proof of which w r e would cite Berry in 

 Yoaatt. He says, " Mr. Mason of Chilton had a cow, 

 the depth of whose fat from rump to hips, in perpen- 

 dicular position, was not less than twelve inches, and 



