Dairy Farming. 
659 = 395 
•ne time higher in public reputation than it has latterly main- 
ained. Bakewell of Dishley had selected it as the sort on 
vhich to try with cattle the same principles of breeding as had 
iroved fruitful of such wonderful results with the Leicester 
tieep. And he made it at length earlier of maturity, with a 
reater aptitude to fatten and more readiness to put on beef 
er rib and sirloin, where the carcass is most valuable. In 
roportion, however, as it improved in these respects, it became 
■ss valuable as a dairy breed. Its merits have always been 
