the Devon Breed of Cattle. 
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Delaware ; S. Hurlburt, of Connecticut ; G. Patterson, of Maryland ; 
R. Peters, of Georgia ; W. R. Sanfovd, of Vermont ; and Farmer, 
of Canada West. In the fourth volume the following additional 
owners registered their stock : — G. S. Brown, the Hon. A. R. 
Conger, Hon. Ezra Cornell, Arthur Gillman, Col. Hole, of West 
P'arms, State of New York ; Hon. John Wentworth, of Illinois ; 
Mr. J. F. Anderson, of Maine ; Linsley, of Connecticut ; J. H. 
M'Henry, of Maryland ; and Mr. D. Steinmetz, of Pennsylvania, 
who lately wrote thus to the editor of the ' Herd-Book ' : — " I find 
North Devon cattle the most profitable breed in America ; I 
can raise more valuable beef on them with the same amount of 
food than any other breed." Through Mr. Fowler, Mr. J. Davy 
has sent Devons to Jamaica, and 2 bulls and 2 heifers to 
Mexico ; and Messrs. Quartly, Davy, Turner, Merson, and 
Farthing, have sent them to Ireland, Canada, and Australia. 
The Duke of Cornwall (33), Prince of Wales (106), Volunteer 
(128), and Napoleon (80), and several females, were purchased 
some years ago for the French Government; and in 1862 M. 
De la Chapelle, Brueres, pres St. Arnaud, departement du Cher, 
I'^ance, bought Mr. Davy's second-prize yearling heifer Young 
Empress at the Battersea Royal Show ; also Rachel (2306), 
Lady Mary (2125), and Rosebud (2330), of the late Mr. E. Pope, 
of Great Toller, Dorset. 
In the course of this essay stress has been more than once laid 
on the marked improvement in quality and symmetry of the 
large-framed Somersetshire Devons produced by the use of the 
best and neatest North Devon bulls, and this view was borne 
out by the late Mr. Henry Cline, in his ' Observations on the 
Breeding and Form of Domesticated Animals.' At page 8, he 
says : — 
" Wlien tlic male is mucli larger than the female, the offspring is generally 
of an imperfect form. If the female be proportionally larger than the male, 
the offspring is of an improved form. The proper method of imi)roving the 
form of animals consists in selecting a well-formed female, proportionallj' larger 
than the male. The improvement depends on this principle : that the power 
of the female to supply her offspring with nourishment is in proportion to her 
size, and to the power of nourishing herself from the excellence of her con- 
stitution." 
The Devon breed having thus been traced from the earliest 
period, when their existence was scarcely known beyond the then 
remote county from which they derive their name, and it having 
been shown how a small band of farmers, justly proud of their 
native breed, by their own exertions sustained its purity, and 
carried it triumphantly through a very critical period — until 
at length its own intrinsic merits attracted the attention at first of 
a few discriminating judges, and finally of the general public, 
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