. 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. CRITERIA OF THE 15ULL FAMILY. 1019 general; and their beef, though high-coloured, is very well flavoured. I have seen, says Culley, some veryuseful cattle bred from a cross between an Alderney cow and a short-horned bull. 6803. The Irish cattle, Cullev thinks, are a mixed breed between the long-horns and the Welsh orScotch, but more inclin
. 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. CRITERIA OF THE 15ULL FAMILY. 1019 general; and their beef, though high-coloured, is very well flavoured. I have seen, says Culley, some veryuseful cattle bred from a cross between an Alderney cow and a short-horned bull. 6803. The Irish cattle, Cullev thinks, are a mixed breed between the long-horns and the Welsh orScotch, but more inclined to the long-horns, though of less weight than those in England. 6804 The last variety of cattle we shall mention is one entirely of luxury, it is the wild breed (Jig. )which is found only in the parks of a few great proprietors, who preserve the animals as curious and 86(5. ornamental, or for the sake of their high-flavoured beef. Those kept at Chillingham Castle, in North-umberland, a seat belonging to the Earl of Tankerville, have been very accurately described in theNorthumberland Report, and in Culleys book on live stock, so often quoted. Their colour is invariably ofa creamy white ; muzzle black ; the whole of the inside of the ear, and about one third ot the outside,from the tips downward, red ; horns white, with black tips, very fine, and bent upwards; some of the bullshave a thin upright mane, about an inch and a half or two inches long. The weight of the oxen is fromthirty-five to forty-five stone, and the cows from twenty-live to thirty-five stone the four quarters (fourteenpounds to the stone). The beef is finely marbled, and of excellent flavour. From the nature ot theirpasture, and the frequent agitation they are put into by the curiosity of strangers, it is scarcely to beexpected they should get very fat; yet the six years old oxen are gene
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