The educated horse teaching The educated horse : teaching horses and other animals to obey at word, sign, or signal, to work or ride : also, the breeding of animals, and discovery in animal physiology : and the improvement of domestic animals educatedhorsetea00offu Year: 1854 ESSAY ON CATTLE. 247 cow, although she should be somewhat roomy, is too large and masculine, the ox will be brawny and coarse, and per- haps a little sluggish at work, and even somewhat unkind and slow in the process of fattening, and these are objections which, most of all, he would be unwilling to have justly made. Th
The educated horse teaching The educated horse : teaching horses and other animals to obey at word, sign, or signal, to work or ride : also, the breeding of animals, and discovery in animal physiology : and the improvement of domestic animals educatedhorsetea00offu Year: 1854 ESSAY ON CATTLE. 247 cow, although she should be somewhat roomy, is too large and masculine, the ox will be brawny and coarse, and per- haps a little sluggish at work, and even somewhat unkind and slow in the process of fattening, and these are objections which, most of all, he would be unwilling to have justly made. The Herefordshire is therefore somewhat undersized; and it not unfrequently happens that she produces a bull-calf that grows to three times her own weight. â ^yiY The New Leicester.â(Fig. 3.) This breed, spoke into existence as it were, by the com- manding genius of Bakewell, were derived from the original Long Horns, of the midland and north-western counties of England. The Lancashire or Craven, as this original variety is generally denominated, were characterized, at least the better portion of them, by their length and roundness of car- cass, and by giving peculiarly rich milk, though in moderate quantities. They were large, coarse boned, but possessing a considerble, and sometimes a marked tendency to fatten. A smaller variety of the same breed, generally inhabiting moun- tain and moor lands, according to Mr. Youatt, gave milk as superior in quality. Out of these materials Bakewell formed the New Leicesters, which for aptitude to acquire external fat and early maturity, became almost unrivalled. He re- duced the size, and especially the bone of the old Long Horns,
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