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VOLUME XXVI— No. 8. 
NEW- YORK, AUGUST, 1867. 
NEW SERIES— No. 247. 
BELGIAN BUL 
Flemish., Belgian, and Dutch painters are per- 
haps tempted to tlevote themselves to animal 
painting, more than the artists who live among 
more diversified natural scenery. De Haas is 
a universal favorite, and his pictures have great 
power of showing motion and color, and a re- 
ality, which indicates that each one is a genuine 
experience, or real scene. In the rugged out- 
lines of these bulls there is no taming down of 
had beef points to suit ;t " thorough-bred " 
taste — no effort to make an ugly beast less ugly. 
There is an awkward ponderousness in the 
swaying round of the great carcass of the 
larger bull, which is very natural, and a soft 
play of light on the hide of the smaller one, 
which does not conceal at all the play of 
the swelling muscles beneath, as the bulls ar- 
range the preliminaries, and take positions for 
a grand tussle. We lose in the engraving en- 
tirely the effects of color, but looking al it 
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L S. — From a Painting by De Haas.— copi 
through a roll of paper, these fine effects will 
come out much plainer than otherwise. The 
original is owned by Mr. George Jones, one of 
the proprietors of the V. T. Time*, and is valued 
at $3,000. Its size is only 20 by 30 inches. 
We never witness two steers, or cows even, 
with locked horns, trying one another's pluck, 
but we think of the poor adaptation of our best 
yokes, to secure for us the full power of the 
willing ox. There is a concentration of force 
in the forehead of the bull, or of any animal of 
the ox kind, which we hardly find in any other 
creature, except, perhaps, the elephant. The 
horse draws properly by his shoulders, but the 
ox's shoulders are not adapted to draw by. We 
make him draw by the top of his neck, where 
the projecting spines of his backbone arc some- 
what protected by a tendinous band, and by 
skin no thicker than any other part of his bide. 
Of course it hurts him, and under no circum- 
tdfor the American Agriculturist. 
stance can he exert his full strength upon the 
yoke. If yoked by the head, a practice preva- 
lent over most of Europe, and among Spanish 
Americans, the forehead, pressing against a 
padded yoke, becomes the point of power. The 
concentrated energies of every muscle and sinew 
of the body operate through the forehead upon 
the load, just as in a fight between bulls, they 
■each concentrate, with the greatest ease, their 
whole muscular strength in their heads. It is 
safe to say that in this country we never make 
use of the whole strength of our oxen. This 
subject has been repeatedly alluded to in the 
American Agriculturist, in the hope that some 
one, who uses oxen in farm work, would so 
break his stoers,and report the results. The expe- 
riment needs to bo made with care, and the ani- 
mals well broken, before being tried with heavy 
loads. No one who has watched a fight can 
doubt the correctness of this principle of yoking. 
