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CATTLE. 



IN TREATING of this fpccies of live- 

 ftock, it will be proper to confider, feparately, 



1. The fpecies, or breed. 



2. Cows, and the management of the dairy. 



3. Rearing cattle. 



4. Bullocks, or fatting-cattle. 



I. The species. The prefent breed of 

 cattle, in this Diftridf, is not kfs peculiar 

 to the country, than its breed of horfes was 

 formedy (fee horses), and is ftrongly marked 

 with the fame leading charadlers. 



The native cattle of Norfolk are a fmall, 

 liardy, thriving race •, fatting as freely, and 

 finilhing as highly, at three years old, as cattle 

 in general do at four or five. 



They are fmall-boned, — Ihort-legged,— 



round-barrelled, — well-loined,' — thin-thighed, 



— clean-chapped ; the head, in general, fine, 



and the horns clean, middle-fized, asd bent 



Y 2 up. 



