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ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR, 
Tho jaws are free from thickness, and the throat from dewlap. 
The back, the barrel, and the hind quarters differ from those of other 
breeds, having more of roundness and beauty, and being free from angles. 
Points of the Devons. 
. Yountt, than whom none have written more intelligently on domestio 
animals, describes the characteristics of the breed as follows : 
The more perfect specimens of the Devon breed are thus distinguished : 
The horn of the bull ought to be neither too low nor too high, tapering 
at the points, not too thick at the tip. 
Tho eye should be clear, bright, and prominent, showing much of the 
white, and have around it a circle of dark orange color. 
The forehead should be flat, indented, and small, for, by the smallness 
of the forehead, the purity of the breed is very much estimated. 
The check should be small, and the muzzle fine ; the nose must be of 
a. clear yellow. 
Tho nostril should be high and open ; the hair curled about the head. 
The neck should be thick, and'that sometimes almost to a fault. 
Devon Working Ox. 
Excepting in the head and neck, the form of the bull does not matey, 
rially differ from that of the ox, but he is considerably smaller. There 
are exceptions, however, to this rule. 
The head of the ox is small, very singularly so, relatively to his bulk; 
yet it has a striking breadth of forehead ; it is clean and free from flesb 
about the jaws. 
The eye is very prominent, aiid the animal has a pleasing vivacity of 
