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found, that the loss in farming stock, and

, ti also in the diminution of animal food, is a very considerable, from the production of)’ ng 5 i| horns and their appendages*, ii an ¢ * Many intelligent husbandmen, in different districts of fac) y the country, do not coincide in opinion with Mr. Cline on- the subject of horns, st:| * The horn,’ says Mr. Marshall,‘is the best criterion rat for distinguishing the different species(if the term be ap. dae plicable) of cattle. It is a permanent specific character, wie The co/ur, though not altogether accidental, is change- forties able; and neither the form nor the Jlesh are permanently veil characteristic of any particular species. Good form and nati good flesh may be found in every species; though they are chy is by no means equally prevalent nor equally excellent in all. ste But a horn six inches long was never yet produced by the the fs Craven breed; nor one a yard long by the Holderness chai breed. And the middle-horned breed of Herefordshire, vito Sussex, and other parts of the island, appears to be as dis- el. tinct a species as either of the former.—These are my only eS 4 reasons for being so minutely descriptive of the horns of cattle. I amnota bigot to horns of any shape or length, i I would as soon judge of a man’s heart by the length of his hc fingers, as of the value of a bullock by the length of his ¥. horns. If his flesh be good and well laid on, and his offal mg be Proportionably small; if he thrive well, fat at an early ve Oly ir a Seer sa