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sheep, they would have still less occasion to buy bul- 

 locks. 



Cattle in Norfolk of other sorts, do not offer much 

 that is interesting : they have a breed of their own which 

 possesses no qualities sufficient to make it an objetft of 

 particular attention. 



I saw upon Mr. Money's farm at Rainsham, a Nor- 

 folk horned cow, which is undoubtedly 35 years old ; she 

 has not had a calf for about ten years ; she is old to the 

 eye, but in good condition, and no marks of extreme age, 

 except a stiffness in her motion, and a halting gait, as if 

 her feet were sore. 



I viewed a dairy at Mileham, Mr. Carrtngton's, 

 the only one left in that country of the true old Norfolk 

 breed of cows : middle horned ; some rather shorter, and 

 tending to the Alderney horn ; colour red, in some not 

 much unlike the Devon ; as loose and ill made as bad Suf- 

 folks. Mr. Marshall gives a much more favourable 

 idea of those of East Norfolk. 



" Small boned, short-legged, round barrelled, well 

 loined, thin thighed, clean chapped ; the head in general 

 fine, and the horns clean, middle-sized, and bent upwards : 

 tlve favourite colour, a blood red, with a white or a mot- 

 sled face. The Herefordshire in miniature, except that 

 the chine and the quarter of the Norfolk breed are more 

 frequently deficient: no better flesh 'd beasts are sent to 

 Smithfield. This quality of flciih, and fatting freely at an 

 early age, do away every solid obje6lion to their size 

 (40 stone) and form. One of the best tarmcrs in the dis- 

 tri6l apprehended that the best cross, that of the Highland 

 Scot, would not fat so early : he is clear that a Scot does 

 not fat kindly even at three years old, much less at two, 

 at which age many hundred head of cattle are annual]/ 

 fatted in this county." — AlanhalL 



Mr, 



