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Dairy Farming. 
par excellence, but they leave their comparatively bleak home ir 
the districts of North Devon, and are sold as stores at thret 
years old, either to be grazed in the richer valleys of the southen 
division of the county, or possibly for use in the butter dairie: 
of the same county and of Dorsetshire, where, however, a large: 
, red breed of similar type is preferred. 
The Sussex 
breed. 
The Norfolk- 
Polled breed. 
Fig. 6.— Mr. Welbe7-'s Devon Heifer, " Lydia." 
The Sussex breed must be merely named. It is even less 
dairy breed than the Devon, which it much resembles, being « 
the same dark-red colour with middle-sized spreading horns, h\ 
rather thicker in its build and of a larger size. It is now we 
represented at all our annual cattle shows : and is becomir 
generally known as a good grazier's beast, capable of carryir 
a great weight of good beef at an early age. 
The Norfolk Polled breed is distinctly a dairy breed of cattl 
largely cultivated in the two eastern counties — Norfolk ar 
Suffolk. The portrait (Fig. 7) represents " Gloss," a cow 
the breed belonging to R. E. Lofft, Esq., of Troston, Bu 
St. Edmunds ; and it will be seen that in form it represents tl 
very ideal of a heavy milker. With somewhat slender hej; 
and neck, and great development towards the hindquarter, ai 
with a large full udder, she leaves nothing to be desired. T 
butter dairying of Suffolk is gradually disappearing ; but t: 
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