356 THE ox. 



continued feeding from the birth which brings the animal 

 soonest to the maturity required. Reasons, then, it will be 

 seen, exist for confining the use of oxen for labour within 

 certain limits, and for not extending the system to parts of 

 the country where breeds of animals unsuited to the purpose 

 are now reared, or where a different system of agriculture 

 is established. 



The Breed of Sussex has, like every other, had its warm ad- 

 mirers, as well as its too prejudiced opponents. If it has not 

 obtained that favour which has been sufficient to cause its 

 extension to other parts of the country, this has not been 

 because the breed is naturally bad, but because the same 

 attention has not been employed in calling forth the proper- 

 ties now most generally valued in a race of cattle. It is net 

 until a period comparatively recent, that much general atten- 

 tion has been paid to the improvement of the Sussex Breed, 

 with respect to symmetry and early maturity. Latterly, how- 

 ever, great attention has been paid to these properties. Va- 

 rious eminent breeders have employed the usual means for 

 correcting the defects of the existing race ; and, at the pre- 

 sent time, numerous admirable oxen are derived from this 

 county, to supply the larger markets with which it is in com- 

 munication. 



XVI. THE GLAMORGAN BREED. 



The county of Glamorgan is a district of the coal-forma- 

 tion, situated on the Bristol Channel. In its geological cha- 

 racters, it differs entirely from the elevated parts of Wales 

 with which it is in contact. Towards the north, it consists 

 of mountains producing a coarse herbage of grasses, largely 

 mixed with sedges, rushes, and other innutritious plants ; its 

 central part is less elevated, and more productive, but still 

 chiefly adapted to pasturage ; its southern division lying on 

 the coast, and extending from six to ten miles inland, forms 



