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Id also;

SO. hich nl Such a cross, besides these or other ad- Dic Sih Oe

wi the vantages accruing from it to the Devon- ent®,’

Both these breeds are excellent, being well-shaped, small-

800d hus.

boned, hardy and readily fattening. ay any From other facts regarding cattle, which it were needless "sisted in, to mention, it is uncertain whether the Devonshire would than 10 or come to lose their horns by a cross with the Galloway—

» and very which are yet but little removed from a horned breed. Some

‘acter with naturalists ascribe a great deal to the effects of domestication he west of and good treatment, as tending to remove the horns both in lin perfec. cattle and sheep, the bunch, mane, and coarse hairiness he smaller, of some animals, and other rude insignia of a wild state.

e time al. It may be so; for the finest forms are in general found in of a sort the most favourable situations, Still, however, other alter- but which ations in the size or conformation of particular parts may of which arise, and prove rather a deformity. Some are of opinion, orns in the as was the late Reverend Dr. Walker, that when placed in ntinuance goed circumstances, in the case of particular species of sheep, y such for as the number of their horns diminish, the size of their tails ractice of increase: And some facts mentioned by the late Dr. Pallas, lung state, about the Russian flocks, are rather in support of the same mals were conclusion.—But on all this subject, the advantages or dis- | stock by advantages of horns, the means of removing them,&c. of such a there is yet much to discover. Even the celebrated Dr. a¢ thereby Samuel Johnson, found horns great stumbling blocks in far, but 10 the way of his natural knowledge, when examining the

attempted, Kyloes, the cousins of the Galloways, in the Isle of Sky,

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