CLASS I. MAMMALIA: ORDER 9. RUMINANTIA. 



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The Dante, Bos Dante, sometimes called the Egyptian Zebu, is probably a variety of the pre- 

 ceding. 



The Syrian Ox of the present day has wide-spreading horns, high shoulders, and a dewlap 

 that nearly sweeps the ground. This is of the same species as our domestic ox ; it is also, no 

 doubt, the ox of the Bible, though some learned men hold that this animal was the Indian 

 buffalo, which has been domesticated for ages in the East, and which is still used in Syria, Egypt, 

 and other Bible countries, as well as in the various parts of India and Europe, already mentioned. 



ITALIAN FARMERS REJOICING AFTER THE HARVEST. 



GENERAL REMARKS ON DOMESTIC CATTLE. 



We need not enlarge upon the fact already stated, that our domestic cattle probably contrib- 

 ute more largely to the solid comfort of society at large than any other species of animal ; nor 

 need we repeat the eulogies we have pronounced upon that favorite member of the ox family, 

 the Cow. But as there are great differences of quality in this creature, we copy for the advan- 

 tage of all our readers the following quaint recipe by which a good one may always be known : 



She's long in her face, she's fine in her horn; 

 She'll quickly get fat without cake or corn ; 

 She's clear in her jaws and full in her chine, 

 She's heavy in flank and wide in her loin. 



She's broad in her ribs and long in her rump, 

 With a straight, flat back and never a hump ; 

 She's wide in her hips and calm in her eyes, 

 She's fine in her shoulders and thin in her thighs. 



She's light in her neck and small in her tail, , 



She's wide in her breast and good at the pail ; 



She's fine in her bone and silky of skin, 



She's a grazier's without and a butcher's within. 



* In the engraving above, the wild, sinister aspect of the buffalo, even in its domestic state, is well represented. 



