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haunches, and in many instances half their coats, 

 covered with an old crust of indurated mud and 

 dung. The farmers do nothing to improve their 

 cattle and are not only satisfied to go on keeping 

 these small beasts of no particular breed a red and 

 white animal which looks like a degenerated Jersey - 



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but it is customary to allow them to breed a year too 

 soon. 



This, however, is not a question to dogmatise about; 

 one would certainly wish to see the beasts better cared 

 for in the winter months and brought to market in a 

 less filthy state, but I doubt that any improved breed 

 would flourish in the conditions in which these 

 animals exist in the small dairy farms on the stony 

 moors in this rough unsheltered district. The cow of 

 the Land's End country is, in some degree, a product 



