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their hind quarters than the Devenshire, though perhaps even these are in that point less perfect than some others.

In the business of breeding, the proper- ties of the parent stock deserve prime at- tention.

Semper erunt, quarum mutari corpora malis. Semper enim refice: ac ne post amissa requiras; Anteveni, et sobolem armento sortire quotannis.

Seu quis Olympiace miratus preamia palme, Pascit equos, seu quis fortes ad aratra juvencos,

Corpora precipué matrum legat: Omnia magna.

Nec non et pecori est idem delectus equino. Tu modo, quos in spem statues submittere gentis, Precipuum jam inde a teneris impende laborem.

&e. VIRGIL.

The kind of animals selected for coup- ling ought never to be of very different

person may, with considerable certainty, ascertain the age of any ox or cow that has horns.” Donaldson’s Modern Agriculture, Vol. III. p. 166,—lot only may the age of the animal be known by the horns, but, in some respects, its past treatment or health may be guessed at. The horns are least smooth, or the grooves between the annulets are deepest, in cows ill fed during winter, and in those herds that have

not a full or equal supply of food at all seasons,

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