THE DF.rONS. .')9 



One 5 years 11 months old, dead net weight, 1,593 lbs.; one 

 3 years 7 montlis old, dead net weight, (rough tallow 160 lbs.) 

 1,316 lbs.; one 3 years 10 montlis old, dead net weight, (rough 

 tallow 128 lbs.) 904 lbs. The Earl of Leicester's steers, at four 

 years old, on his Holkham estates, gave dead net weights of 

 1,000, 1,200, and even 1,400 lbs. Those of the Duke of Nor- 

 folk, near Bury, in Suffolk, made 900 to 1,000 pounds each. 

 These were all highly fed, and possibly, some of them, prize beef. 



A 3 years 10 months old steer, in Genesee County, N. Y., 

 gave, dead net weight, 1,200 lbs. — hide and rough tallow in- 

 cluded — the latter being over 100 lbs. The late Mr. Lemuel 

 Hurlburt, of "Winchester, Connecticut, fed a pair three-fourths 

 Devon cattle, having worked them till six years old, and fed 

 them 15 months afterwards. Their weights were as follows : 



No. 1— Carcass, . . . 1,438 lbs. 

 Hide, . . . 117 lbs. 



Tallow, ... 175 lbs.— 1,730 lbs. 



No. 2— Carcass, . . .1,528 lbs. 

 Hide, . . . 115 lbs. 



Tallow, ... 213 lbs.— 1,856 lbs. 



We have had slaughtered many of our own grass fed steers, 

 three-fourths, to seven-eighths, and thorough bred Devon, at 3M 

 years, which made 700 to 850 lbs. net weight of beef, hide, and 

 tallow, and never fed anything but grass and hay, from calves. 



After all we have said of the Devon — and our praise is not 

 too high — popular opinion in America has, to a considerable 

 extent, classed him as too small in size for the most profitable 

 uses — "They haven't growth enough." But tor their apparent 

 size, and actual measurement, no animal of his race, not even a 

 short-horn, will weigh a heavier carcass of the best meat, laid 

 on in the choicest parts. With some, his want of size is an 

 available objection, with others not. In the Southern States 

 the Devon is often preferred to any other breed. They gather 



