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The new farmer's calendar : or monthly remembrancer for all kinds of country business ; comprehending all the material improvements in the new husbandry with the management of live stock, inscribed to the farmers of Great Britain / by a farmer and breeder [i. e. J. Lawrence]
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T SUCK he HEAT CATTLE. 493 1 Of pury, d Purp, TINg Up whi \ the score

et shott-horned cows, producing the largest quan- tities of milk, of course the best species for the

purpose of those who sell milk, and for suckling calves.‘Lhis large breed came originally from

|! Holstein, and the Low-Countries, and were, indee. D, and POLL.

cate specie,

1 OUF island

RP aie nen lato ome wee

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intil of late years, too coarse and Dutch-built;

they have been much improved i in symmetry, an- ed have the fneness of bone and flesh, by a judicious cross w ith i but least in the See cattle: for this improvement, I under- i est, and with stand the country is chiefly indebted to the exer- H the largest tons of the late Sir William St. Quintin.‘They) f solid beet. are now very excellent and beautiful stock, and' 1 to partake many of them are made fatat three years old. Ry ies, inclin- The Surrotk Duns, a small polled breed, pro- Fe mixtures bably of Scottish origin, are a very fashionable sort

excellent as dairy cows. Some of them are well shaped, and

oad-lorned, all milk largely, with the convenience of being un-

or Lance: burthened with horns; but as butter-cows,| have

cow; they ever thought them inferior to the long-horned spe-

pecles, ply: eles.

and butter, Alderney Cows are great milkers, in proportion rteat Size, to ow weight, fine athied: but for the dairy, in- ym-mixtute ferior to the long-horned breed. They make a

5 for sale i good cross for coarse stock, and in that intent,,

+ are oft would suit, excellently, certain of the common-bred, neice stock, which are defective in. quantity of milk.

To come more aes rly to beef, and labour in harness—The DevonsHire Ox; of a beautiful

blood red, is supposed t to a in the first rank.

e js the ot yrned Drees ck, the mom

gain ons

“nts This ancient species has great delicacy and show of :[DiAs4)) Rete,

- blood, and comes up to a large size. They are,

- L L>~ ay ey gee TQ© bevond a doubt, the fastest walkers we have; and

' ay a their