. Cattle. Cattle; Cattle. THE LEICESTER LONG-HORNS. 91 " As dairy-stock, it does not admit of doubt that their milking quali- ties have been very much impaired. " As beasts of draught, their general form renders them unfit; yet many of them are sufficiently powerful, and they are more active than some other breeds used for the plough, or on the road ; but the horns generally form an insuperable objection to this use of ;. THE LONG-HORN FEEDING OX. But what is become of Bakewell's improved long-horn breed ? A veil of mystery was thrown over most of his proceedings, which not
. Cattle. Cattle; Cattle. THE LEICESTER LONG-HORNS. 91 " As dairy-stock, it does not admit of doubt that their milking quali- ties have been very much impaired. " As beasts of draught, their general form renders them unfit; yet many of them are sufficiently powerful, and they are more active than some other breeds used for the plough, or on the road ; but the horns generally form an insuperable objection to this use of ;. THE LONG-HORN FEEDING OX. But what is become of Bakewell's improved long-horn breed ? A veil of mystery was thrown over most of his proceedings, which not even his friend Mr. Marshall was disposed to raise. The principle on which he seemed to act, breeding so completely " in and in" was a novel, a bold, and a successful one. Some of the cattle to which we have referred were very extraordinary illustrations, not only of the harmlessness, but the manifest advantage of such a system; but he had a large stock on which to work ; and no one knew his occa- sional deviations from this rule, nor his skillful interpositions of remoter affinities, when he saw or apprehended danger. The truth of the matter is, that the master spirits of that day had no sooner disappeared, than the character of this breed began imper- ceptibly to change. It had acquired a delicacy of constitution,'in- consistent with common management and keep ; and it began slowly, but undeniably, to deteriorate. Many of them had been bred to that. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Youatt, William, 1776-1847; Martin, W. C. L. (William Charles Linnaeus), 1798-1864, joint author; Stevens, A. ed. New-York, C. M. Saxton
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