An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 fi77t) The varieties of the European cow, according to Aiton,
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 fi77t) The varieties of the European cow, according to Aiton, are innumerable. The pliancy of their nature is such, that they have been formed into many diversities of shape, and various qualities have been given them, very diHerent from the original stock. The uris, or cows of Lithuania, are almost as large as the elephant; while some of those on the Grampian hills are little above the size of a goat; and cows are fou'id of every diversity of size between the one and the other. They are not less varied in their shapes. The bi-ion, which is a species of the cow family, ?nd which readily propagates with our cows, wears a strong shaggy mane, like the lion ; a beard, like the goat; as much hair under its neck and breast as covers its fore legs ; a hump upon its shoulders, nearly as large as that worn by the camel (sometimes forty or fifty pounds in weight), with a tail that scarcely reaches the top of its buttock; and it resembles the lion much more than it does our domesticated cows, or other varieties of its own species. {Aiton.) (tin. The diversity of qualities in the cut/' family is also \ery great. Our cows are so grovelling and inactive, that they scarcely know the road from their stall to their pasture ; while those of the Hottentots are so tractable as to be intrusted with the charge of other animals, and keep them from trespassing on the fields of grain, or other forbidden ground. They also fight their master's battles, and gore
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