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IRISH CATTLE. 
ing shade and protection to the ground, as well 
as in their decomposition, furnishing the requir¬ 
ed food for the most succulent and thrifty 
growth of the tree. To all or any of these, in 
an old, wom-Dm-73vu, _ J 
and necks; the horns are short, compared with 
the other breed, all of them fine, some of them 
rather upright, and frequently, after projecting 
forward, then turning backward. Although 
dressing of lime and ashes. These articles, are high-bOTe^ani wia^SAePm^V^^' j’J^Z 
together with phosphate of lime, (bones,) fur- bone generally is not heavy. The hair is 
nish the principal ingredients of the apple 
and pear, and a large per-centage of the wood 
of other fruit trees, as well as being those con¬ 
stituents of the soil most rapidly drawn out by 
excessive cropping. By this plain and simple 
process, I have little doubt, orchards can be 
well grown when in permanent grass, and the 
destruction avoided, so constantly occurring in 
plowed lands by the carelessness of plowmen, 
who all bear deadly hatred to a tree, particular¬ 
ly if a small one. The mulching, however, 
should be extended in area somewhat every 
year, to cover the increasing roots as they 
spread; and with such treatment, a plowing 
once in five or six years is all that will be nec¬ 
essary, if such process be required to incorpor¬ 
ate manure into the soil at large. 
L. F. Allen. 
Black Rock , N. Y., 
Jan., 1851. 
— 
coarse and long; they are black brindle, and 
black or brindle, with white faces. Some are 
finer in the bone, and finer in the neck, with 
a good eye and sharp muzzle, and great ac¬ 
tivity. 
They are exceedingly hardy; they live 
through the winter, and sometimes fatten on 
their native mountains and moors; and when 
removed to a better climate and soil, they fatten 
with all the rapidity of the aboriginal cattle of 
the Highlands and Wales. They are generally 
very good milkers, and many of them are ex¬ 
cellent. The cow of Kerry, a portrait of which 
is here presented, is a favorable specimen of 
them. 
The cow of Kerry is truly a poor man’s cow, 
living everywhere hardy, yielding, for her size, 
abundance of milk of a good quality, and fat¬ 
tening rapidly when required. The slightest 
IRISH CATTLE. 
From an exceedingly in¬ 
teresting treatise on cat¬ 
tle about to be published 
by 0 M. Saxton, we make 
the following extract on 
Irish cattle, which will 
enable our readers to 
judge, in a measure, of 
the character of the work. 
It is edited by Mr. A Ste¬ 
vens, of this city, whose 
reputation as an importer 
and breeder of stock is too 
well known to require 
any further comment of 
ours. 
The Irish cattle are ev¬ 
idently composed of two 
distinct breeds ; the mid¬ 
dle and the longhorns. 
The middlehorns are plainly an aboriginal 
breed. They are found on the mountains and 
rude parts of the country, in almost every dis¬ 
trict. They are small, light, active, and wild. 
The head is small, although them are excep¬ 
tions to this in various parts ; and so numerous, 
indeed, are these exceptions, that some describe 
the native Irish cattle as having thick heads 
Kerry Cow.—Fig, 15. 
inspection of the cut will convince the reader 
of the difference between this breed, and both 
the larger and the smaller longhorned Irish one. 
These cattle usually are small, and are con¬ 
fined to the hilly and moor grounds. Some are 
of considerable size, elsewhere, and are improv¬ 
ed in form as well as in weight. The horns 
are usually of middle length„ turn up, as do the 
