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VOLUME XXXI.— No. 2. 
NEW YORK, FEBRUARY, 1872. 
NEW SEPJES— No. 801. 
PEIZE DEVON CATT 
Devon Cattle, or more properly North Devon 
(for there is also a distinct breed known as 
South Devon), are 'without doubt the oldest exist- 
ing race of cattle which can claim the distinction 
of a breed. They have been known in the county 
of Devonshire, in the southern part of England, 
from time immemorial, and from the certainty 
and distinctness with which their peculiar 
marks are transmitted from generation to gen- 
eration, the entire purity of the race is shown. 
Devonshire is a country of hills, interspersed 
with moors and a few rich valleys, and this pe- 
culiarity of the surface has given some qualities 
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to this stock, which make them well adapted 
to similar circumstances elsewhere. As a dairy 
stock they are not the most desirable; but where 
they are to be used as draft cattle, and graziers 
in pastures of ordinary character, they are 
without doubt the most desirable of an}' stock. 
Easily fed, remaining in fair order where a 
Shorthorn or Hereford would starve, fattening 
rapidly when put up, remarkably docile and 
active under the yoke, of fair size and rotund 
figure, giving the idea of greater weight than 
they really possess, and finally as furnishing to 
the butcher the choicest kind of meat, beautifully 
marked with fat, not laid on the surface, but 
mixed with a marbled appearance amongst the 
lean, they are peculiarly the cattle for our hilly 
districts. Their color is a dark blood-red, with 
orange streaks around the nose and eyes. Not 
a spot of white is seen on them when pure, and 
no breed is so certain to retain the evenness of 
color, size, and form as the Devons. At the 
plow or in the wagon they are as active as ordi- 
nary farm-horses, A pair of four-year-old steers 
of this breed will plow an acre per day, and will 
follow a pair of horses in the furrow through- 
out a long summer's day with perfect ease, 
