the Free Martin. - 285 
It is a known fa< 5 t, and, I believe, is underftood to be 
univerfal, that when a cow brings forth two calves, and 
that one of them is a bull-calf, and the other a cow to 
appearance, the cow-calf is unfit for propagation; but 
the bull-calf becomes a very proper bull. They are 
known not to breed: they do not even fhew the leaft 
inclination for the bull, nor does the bull ever take the 
lead: notice of them (c) . 
This cow-calf is called in this country a free martin ; 
and this Angularity is juft as well known among the far- 
mers as either cow or bull. 
This calf has all the external marks of a cow-calf 
fimilar to what was mentioned in the unnatural herma- 
phrodite, viz. the teats and the external female parts, 
called by farmers the bearing. 
When they are preferved it is not for propagation, 
but for all the purpofes of an ox or fpayed heifer, viz. 
to yoke with the oxen, and to fatten for the table (i K 
They refemble in form thofe imperfect animals very 
much, viz. they are much larger than either the bull or 
the cow, and the horns grow larger, being very fimilar 
to the horns of an ox. 
(c) I need hardly obferve here, that if a cow has twins, and that they are 
both bull-calves, that they are in every refpe£t perfect bulls 5 or if they are 
both cow-calves, that they are perfect cows. 
(d) Vide LESLIE on Hufbandry, p, 98, 99, 
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