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ILLUSTRATED 8TOCK DOCTOR. 
The foregoing cut is a good illustration of a Devon bull as lie appeared 
when but two years old. Such an animal may be regarded as a most admirable 
epecimeu. 
Classification of Races. 
In England cattle are divided into beef and dairy cattle. Beef cattle 
again arc divided into long-horns, middle-norns, short-horns, and polled 
or hornless cattle. 
Long-Horns. 
Of the long-horns ; the old Irish long-horns showed a striking pecu- 
liarity, which was, that their horns turned directly downward. , 
In Craven, England, has long existed a breed of cattle peculiar in 
themselves, broad in the chine, quick and easy to fatten, and noted for 
making excellent beef. 
Under the scientific breeding of Bakewell, a hundred years ago, and 
his immediate successor, Leicester, long-horns acquired a wide celebrity. 
This was undoubtedly attained by breeding in-and-in. He was known 
to have done so to a remarkable degree. 
With the death of Bakewell and his immediate successors, excessive 
delicacy of constitution began to tell , and they began to lose casto year3 
ago, as a race. 
They have left their impress, however, and, most decidedly, upon the 
•whole family of long-horns. The}' became better feeders, better hand- 
lers, and made better beef than before the infusion of this blood. 
They have long been superseded by the short-horn and the Herefords, 
and are only noticed here, as forming a part of the mixed blood of cattle, 
of the United States and Canada. 
We occasionally see by reversion, animals among our so called native 
cattle, showing strong characteristics of Leicester, Hereford, Devon, the 
cld Teeswater, the Dutch and polled cattle 
Middle-Horns. 
Of the Middle-Horns the only cattle valuable in the United States, cro 
the Devons and the Herefords, both wonderful families, in their make up, 
and valuable whether for beef or working oxen. 
In fact the Devon is the best working ox in the world, and as beef 
makers their flesh is superior to that of any other breed, except the 
Scotch, or West Highland cattle. 
Besides the Devons the other families of the Middle-Horns, are the 
