1080 FHlornless Ruminants. [Dec, 
than many other kinds to bring them to perfection, and are the 
most improper to breed on barren soils, badly sheltered, for such 
stinting would render them, in a very short space of time, small 
and coarse; and, as age is required, they suit best on situations 
a great distance from market, where part of the land is not good 
enough to fatten, but of a grazing quality, to keep stall stock in 
a growing, thriving state, and a portion sufficiently good to make 
them up for sale. Great numbers of these cattle bred in York- 
shire are fed on the fine rich marshes of Lincoln. But the best 
of them, both polled and horned, although of a good kind, are 
fattened at a more early age than their nature requires. Some of 
these large beasts are particularly fine on the crown of the head, — 
a point to which great regard ought to be paid in the choice ofa 
bull, for several reasons. have observed it to be a ee 
e cow- 
keepers in London, a cow having the least appearance of a bull 
is a sure sign of her being a bad milker, therefore the finer the 
Parkinson has a good deal more to say under the above head- 
ing of “ Yorkshire Polled Cattle,” but he seems to fall away from. 
those in: particular to others in general. The crown of the head 
is twice referred to in the above. That doe-headed character T 
an interesting definition, as will appear: it might, ¢g+ be easily 
contracted doe ded. 
= John Lawrence descants on them thus: 
“The northern or Yorkshire polled cattle.—These have the 
same qualities as the short-horned cattle, carrying vast 36E. pat 
and some I have seen lately are of great size, alt ie 
breed and 
i cattle, they 
ed, among 
“of horned 
