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496 NEAT CATTLE:

clean netk, middle-length horns, bent upward 3 this

face, fine in the chops, wide hips: rather flat on the

sides; tail small and set on very high; thin skinned,

silkyin handling; fat early, shoulder-points beautifully fitted for the collar.

Of the Herzrorp and Sussex, the-formet the heaviest and squarest, by Mr. Ellman, a principal Sussex breeder:———Colour, red, fine hatr, very thin skin, neck and head clean, middle horns, turning up at the porns 5; well made behind; wide in the he rump and surloin, but narrow tn the chine; tolerably straight in the back; ribs or sides flat; thin mm the thigh; middling bone. An ox, six years old, when fat, will weigh from sixty to 100 stone of 141b. fore- quarters generally the heaviest; they are worked to six and seven yeafs old. Calves run with the cows two or three months; a good cow will after- wards produce six or eight pounds of butter per week, for three or four months; and double that

quantity of skimmed-milk che ese. They do not’

give so much milk as the Suffolk’s, but it is much ridher| in quality.

Previously to a purchase for GRAZING or FAT- TENING, a man will naturaily determine upon the

size, and species of bullocks, heifers, or cows, most probable to suit his food, situation, pocket, and other circumstances. It may be convenient,

either to summer or winter-feed, to turn the ee as quickly as ee or keep on, large and im

proved beasts, even to the second summer- grass, By which they are brought to the highest pitch of ex-

cellence. In the choice of a beast, that soft and yet elastic

on,