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CATTLE. 



The , Moorfide farmers have little to 

 anfwer for, in this refped ; moil of the 

 calves, they rear, are purchafed ; either from 

 the " In-country" farmers of their refpedivc 

 neighbourhoods, or are fetched from a dif- 

 tance : the calves of the dairy farms of Eaft 

 Devonfhire and even Dorfetfhire, are, I 

 underfland, bought, in great numbers, by 

 the farmers on the &irts of Dartmore. 

 The few which are bred, by thefe farmers, 

 are, as far as my ctwn obfervations have 

 gone, of a fmall, clean, hardy fort ; adapted 

 to mountain pafture. 



In [this Diftria (Weft DevonHiire) the 

 buiinefs of breeding cattle is conducfted on 

 the woril: of bad principles. If a calf, 

 which otherwife would be reared, difcover 

 fymptoms of a fattening quality, it is 

 ** bulled /' fuifered to run with the cow, 

 ten or twelve months, in the manner of 

 the running calves of Norfolk * * and is 

 then butchered. If a calf of this defcrip- 

 tion fortunately efcapes fo untimely a fate, 

 but fhould fhow an inclination to get fat at 



two 



'*- See NoRF, Econ\ Vol. II. P;<ge 121. 



