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parts, which would be nearly worthless in a lean ox, are good 

 for drying. "When dressed, there is really no loss in the carcass, 

 except bone. In Fig. 4, D and 0, the (brisket and round,) make 

 the finest mess beef, and in large quantity. The loin, at B, and 

 following up the back to the shoulder, being broad and full, gives 

 the best of steaks, and roasts. The "plates," at F, are full and 

 thick, and give excellent corning and packing pieces; while the 

 shoulder points, or neck vein, at A, and the thigh, at B, make 

 good pieces for drying or smoking. It is easy to see, therefore, 

 that such an animal turns aU the extra food given to him, info 

 profitable flesh and tallow. He has no more bone, and little 

 more hide, than if he were lean. 



The economy of good feeding is too palpable for extended 

 observation. We have stood in the extensive sale cattle yards 

 of Bufi'alo,.the past winter and spring — 1866-7 — in the midst of 

 two thousand or more bullocks, and seen hundreds of first quality 

 high grade "Durham Steers," three to four years old, reared in 

 Ohio, Kentucky, and other Western States, go off briskly, from 

 drover to dealer, at nine to eleven cents a pound, live weight, 

 while the great majority of inferior things hung back, and went 

 off slowly at four and a half cents for the worst, and so on up to 

 five, six, seven, and eight, for "poor," "middling," and "fair." 



Two items only, made this wide difference — ^breed, and feeding. 

 Some were so execrably bad, in shape and inferiority of breed, 

 that no amount of good feed would make them profitable to the 

 breeder, grazier, or feeder; the others were so good in breed and 

 flesh, that they were profitable in every hand through which 

 they passed, from calf hood to the butcher's block. 



CATTLE OF THE LONDON (eNGLISh) MARKETS. 



To show the comparative condition of our American beef cat- 

 tle with those of England, we give an extract from a letter just 

 received from our brother, Mr. A. B. Allen of New York 



