THE BULL. 



fmo other, the creature is lefs capable of chewing its food, which is the reafon 

 why old Cows are in general fo lean. 



The horns, at the age of four years, are fmall, pointed, fmooth, and neat, 

 but thicken: near the head : this thick part is next year pufhed forwards from 

 the head, by a horny cylinder, which is alio terminated by another prominent 

 part, and, as the horns continue to grow as long as the animal lives, thefe 

 fwellings become fo many annular knots, by which its age may eafily be 

 reckoned : in order to do this, three years muft be allowed from the point to 

 the firft knot, and each fucceeding knot or ring adds one year to the animal's 

 age. 



The Bull, Cow, and Ox, generally live about fourteen or fifteen years. 



Contrary to all other animals, the Cow enriches the paftures (he feeds on, 

 and always gives more back to the foil than fhe takes from it. 



Cows vary much in the quantity of milk they give ; fome yield fix quarts 

 per day, others from ten to fifteen, and even twenty. The quantity depends 

 a good deal, though not entirely, on the quality of their food. Cows, fed 

 in rich paftures, have been known to yield upwards of thirty quarts of milk 

 in one day ; fuch require milking thrice a day. The milk yields a great 

 quantity of butter, infomuch that twelve or fourteen pounds have been made 

 from the milk of one Cow in a week. 



The udder is remarkably large, in proportion to the fize of the animal, which 

 is the only one of the fame nature that is furnhlied with four teats. It 

 always yields the milk freely to the hand, although it has not a young one to 

 provide for, which it is well known the Afs will not do, but prefently grows 

 dry, if the foal either dies or is taken from her : this property of yielding 

 milk, without a young one, feems to be confined to horned, ruminating 

 animals, which have cloven hoofs, long inteftines, are furnilhed with fuet, 

 and dellitute of fore- teeth in the upper jaw : this definition includes 

 Cows, Deer, Sheep, and Goats, though this property is more confpicuous 

 in the Cow than in any other animal, owing perhaps to the fize and fiiape 

 of its teats, and the capacioufnefs of its udder. It has been remarked, 

 that the larger the dewlap is, the udder is fmaller in proportion, and the 

 contrary. 



