. The corn and cattle producing districts of France. ding, the males are sold to other farmerswho do not breed, small farmers who buy more younganimals than the work of the land really requires, andwho train them gently for the harder work that maycome to them as they grow older. That harder work,however, never really comes, as all through the life ofthe Yendee ox the master is careful never to overworkhim, or to work him too long; his destination is thefat-cattle market, and while taking all the profit he canout of his animals this destination is never lost sightof. Six and eight oxen are emp
. The corn and cattle producing districts of France. ding, the males are sold to other farmerswho do not breed, small farmers who buy more younganimals than the work of the land really requires, andwho train them gently for the harder work that maycome to them as they grow older. That harder work,however, never really comes, as all through the life ofthe Yendee ox the master is careful never to overworkhim, or to work him too long; his destination is thefat-cattle market, and while taking all the profit he canout of his animals this destination is never lost sightof. Six and eight oxen are employed to do the workof two or four ; the Yendeen farmer cannot have oneset of animals for his work and another for his profit,and he tries his best to combine the two, and with suc-cess, for when the autumn labour is done, and the corndelivered, the stock put up to feed through the winterlay on flesh rapidly, and find a good market with thebuyers in the rich farms near Cholet, who finish themo:ff for Paris, upon natural food, farm produce, not upon. poiTOU. , 257 beetroot pulp, or cake, which the Cholet people declare a detestable flavour to the meat, and on thisaccount no cattle are more appreciated. The Yendeen cattle are the purest of the breed calledParthenay; indeed, the Yendeens rather complain thatwriters will persist in calling their stock Parthenay, andno race in France has had more honour from artists andauthors. The beautiful colour of the well-cared-forportion of the breed; its coat shining with careful groom-ing ; the large, full, soft eye like that of a deer, fringedwith a soft, pearly down, and surrounded by a dark rimlike a pair of spectacles; the delicate head ; the blackmuzzle, also fringed with the same pearly down, haveattracted the notice of writers who do not look beyondthe beauty of the animal about which they write. Thebreed, however, deserves, from its inherent qualities, allthe good that has been said of it, and its outside comeli-ness is a
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