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where the quantity of milk and its products was not 
an object, the beat form for bearing a good covering 
of fat, and the animal which would produce a fine 
beef, and in large quantity, at an early age, was the 
aim to which all the great breeders sought to attain ; 
breeds for draught or burden in this country at least 
having been nearly superseded, and even on the Con- 
tinent at last, coming to the public market, the above 
mentioned qualifications are deemed most desirable. 
Desmarest enumerates twenty French and Dutch 
varieties or races, differing merely in the form, which 
bas pleased the breeder. His Bos lemovicensis sup- 
plies the Parisian market chiefly. They are kept 
while young in the district of Perigord, and driven 
to Normandy to be fattened and prepared for the 
market. This breed is of a pale colour, generally 
white or tavmy, strongly formed, with large bending- 
boms ; their weight from 600 lb. to 850 lb. An- 
other, the Race Gasconne, Bos aquitanicus, feeds to 
Dearly a similar weight, is also of a pale colour, and 
bas the horns enormously large. These are con- 
sumed at Bourdeaux, and furnish the principal supply 
for the French navy. B. avernus, reared on the 
Uiountains of Auvergne, is employed at the age of 
ubout three years for tillage, and afterwards fattened. 
It is of strong proportions, yet does not reach a heavy 
Weight. The colour is generally red or brown, and are 
®bort and point upwards. B. viducassencis reaches 
D large size, with large white but short horns, and 
found at the tips, blotched with red and white, 
