American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . their beautiful red coats, elegant form, good disposition,active gait, and also for their strong vitality, as is shown in their power of reproducing theirown form, color, and general characteristics in their progeny or their grades. The countryand climate had much to do in the muscular development and constitutional vigor, whichare so naturally fixed and perfected that crossing with any other breed would be more hkelyto injure them than improve them. Originating centuries ago, w
American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments . their beautiful red coats, elegant form, good disposition,active gait, and also for their strong vitality, as is shown in their power of reproducing theirown form, color, and general characteristics in their progeny or their grades. The countryand climate had much to do in the muscular development and constitutional vigor, whichare so naturally fixed and perfected that crossing with any other breed would be more hkelyto injure them than improve them. Originating centuries ago, when the wild grasses afforded them scant feed, it necessi-tated continued exercise in hunting for and gathering their subsistence. By such natural continued through many generations, the muscles of the breedhave been developed and rendered compact, and their bones solidified, till each bears a dueproportion to the other, and both to the size of the body in all its parts, producing a form ofthe most beautiful symmetry. The bulls, on an average, weigh from 1,600 to pounds, though when transferred. CATTLE. 851 to our rich valleys of blue-grass pastures and corn, not unfrequently reach 2,000 to 2,200pounds. Descriptioil.—The color of the Devon is of a deep red, great pains having been takenby breeders of the improved families of this breed with respect to this point, in the selectionfor breeding purposes, those having any tendency to materially deviate from this color beingrejected. This characteristic has been fairly established, and their color, as well as otherstrong points, is stamped with absolute certainty on their offspring. To such an extent isthis true, that when the Devon bull is crossed with the native and grade cows of whatevercolor, the progeny wiU, with very rare exceptions, be red like the sire, while there is no raceof cattle in which any admixture of other blood may be so easily traced. The head is finely formed, and well set, being lean, rather s
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