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also he of good beef type and good quality. This saves the 

 work of dehorning and gives one a fine bunch of uniform beef 

 calves even from dairy cows. 



The Angus is not ciuite so wide in the back and hips as the 

 shorthorn but is very thickly fleshed all over the body with 

 a fine quality of flesh. They ai-e also rather fine in bone. 

 Hence the}- dress out well wdien slaughtered. They are not 

 (luite so large as the shorthorns. 



Fig. 32.— r.aHnivay row. (Hil.lflirand.) 



Hereford. — The Hereford is an lOnglish breed of beef 

 cattle having horns, a red body and a white head. The 

 white also extends back on top of the neck and on the mider 

 side of the neck including the dewlap and lower parts of the 

 legs. There is also some white on the under sitle of the body. 



In conformation this Ijreed is very broad in the back but 

 formerly were somewhat light in the hind quarters. In this, 

 however, in late years, there has been considerable improve- 

 ment. The Hercfords are also an old well-developed breed 

 and are especially well adapted to grazing. On this account 



