. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. Book VII. VARIETIES OF THE BULL FAMILY. 1017 the average weight of bullocks three years and a half old, when the greater part of them are driven to thesouth, has been stated at about 40 stone, avoirdupois; and some of them, fattened in England, have beenbrought to nearly 1U0 stone. 6787. The general properties of this breed are well known in almost
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. Book VII. VARIETIES OF THE BULL FAMILY. 1017 the average weight of bullocks three years and a half old, when the greater part of them are driven to thesouth, has been stated at about 40 stone, avoirdupois; and some of them, fattened in England, have beenbrought to nearly 1U0 stone. 6787. The general properties of this breed are well known in almost every part of England, as well as inScotland They are sometimes sent from their native pastures directly to Smithfield, a distance of fourhundred miles, and sold at once to the butcher ; and in spring they are often shown in Norfolk, immedi-ately after their arrival, in as good condition as, or even better than, when they begin their journey; withfull feeding, there is perhaps no breed that sooner attains maturity, and their fle-h is of the finest was misinformed about the quantity of milk they yield, which, though rich, is by no means abun-dant. It is alleged not to be more than seventy or eighty years since the Galloways we
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