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‘ The length of the neck should be pro- portioned to the height of the animal, that it may collect its food with ease.

‘The muscles and tendons, which are their appendages, should be large; by which an animal is enabled to travel with greater facility.

age, or work to a late one if required; I would much rather have him entirely without horns.

‘ The horn, however, in varieties, may have its use as a criterion, Thus supposing a male and female of superior form and flesh, and with horns resembling each other(as nearly as the horns of males and females of the same variety naturally do), no matter whether short or long, sharp or clubbed, rising or falling; and supposing a variety to be established from this parentage, it is highly probable that the horns of the parents would continue for a while to be characteristic of the true breed, and might, by inferior judges, be depended upon, in some degree, as a criterion. But it is indisputable that horns remain the same, while the flesh and fatting quality change; and every man of superior judgement will depend more upon the form and handle of the carcase, than upon the length and turn of the horn: For it is a notorious fact, that the individuals of a given variety may have exactly the same horns, without having exactly either the same fashion or the same flesh. Rur. Econ, of

Yorkshire, Vol.[I. p. 188.