. 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. banks of the Tees, at the head ofthe vale of York, is at present in the highest esti-mation, and is alleged to be the true Yorkshireshort-horned breed. Bulls and cows from this stock,purchased at most extraordinary prices, are spreadover all the north of England, and the border coun-ties of Scotland. The bone, head, and neck of thesecattle are fine;
. 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. banks of the Tees, at the head ofthe vale of York, is at present in the highest esti-mation, and is alleged to be the true Yorkshireshort-horned breed. Bulls and cows from this stock,purchased at most extraordinary prices, are spreadover all the north of England, and the border coun-ties of Scotland. The bone, head, and neck of thesecattle are fine; the hide is very thin ; the chinefull; the loin broad ; the carcase throughout largeand well fashioned; and the flesh and fatting quality-equal, or perhaps superior, to those of any otherlarge breed. The shoit-horns give a greater quan-tity of milk than any other cattle; a cow usuallyyielding twentv-four quarts of milk per day, makingthree firkins of butter during the grass season :their colours are much varied, but they are generallyred and white mixed, or what the breeders call flecked. The heaviest and largest oxen of the short,horned breed, when properly fed, victual the East India ships, as they produce the thickest beet, winch, 3 T 4.
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