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Where Devons Thrive. 
They cannot compete with the Short-Horns and Herefords, on flush’ 
western pastures. 
They lack sixe, and early maturity, but on hill, or broken pastures, and 
in climates too cold for these breeds, and especially in climates unsuitable 
to Short-Horns, they are the best cattle ever known. 
On the previous page, as showing the extraordinary symmetry and 
style of this remarkable breed, ive present a likeness of a Devon bull, 
remarkable for eminent characteristics of the breed. 
Devon Cows. 
The bulls of this breed are inclined to be vicious as they get old. 
The cows are gentle, and if gently used, kind in the extreme. Both 
males and females, however, are so high strung that they will not bear 
abuse. A brutal master they will light, but if managed with a firm, yet 
gentle hand, they arc the most familiar, as they are the most intelli- 
gent, of horned cattle. 
The cows give exceedingly rich milk, and many of them fair quantities. 
The males are said to cross kindly with the Guernseys, and theso 
make valuable dairy cattle. 
There are however now so many excellent pure breeds of milkers that 
It -would be futile to experiment with the cross, since it -will Purely reduce 
the value of the animal either for work or beef. 
As workers, milkers and beef makers combined, for the amount of 
food taken, they have no superior, if they have their equal. As beef 
makers alone, in the West, the Short Horns and Hereford arc superior. 
As milkers the Jersey, the Holstein and Ayrshire take the palm. .Vs 
working cattle the Devons are superior to all known breeds. 
The cut on the following page is a good illustration of a high caste 
Devon cow. 
Characteristics of the Devon Cow. 
This we give as follows : 
There are few things more remarkable about the Devon cattle than the 
comparative smallness of the cow. The bull is a great deal less than the 
ox and the cow smaller than the bull. 
This is some disadvantage, and the breeders are aware of it; for, 
although it may not be necessary to have a large bull, and especially as 
those of an extraordinary size are seldom handsome in all their points, 
h>u i<2 me whew or other present coarseness or deformity, it is almost 
