. Cattle. Cattle; Cattle. 78 CATTLE. length, turn up; as do the horns of those on the mountains; they are shorter in the leg, shorter in the body ; their loins and haunches are heavy and wide; although the hair is thick, the hide is mellow, and they thrive with '^w^u^- ----—-as——*i KERRY cow. This breed is now not to be met with pure, exept inland on the mountains ; being nearly worn out elsewhere by the repeated crosses with the Leicester, Hereford, and Devon; but for the dairy, all the farmers still prefer those cows with most of the native Irish blood. The other breed is of a lar
. Cattle. Cattle; Cattle. 78 CATTLE. length, turn up; as do the horns of those on the mountains; they are shorter in the leg, shorter in the body ; their loins and haunches are heavy and wide; although the hair is thick, the hide is mellow, and they thrive with '^w^u^- ----—-as——*i KERRY cow. This breed is now not to be met with pure, exept inland on the mountains ; being nearly worn out elsewhere by the repeated crosses with the Leicester, Hereford, and Devon; but for the dairy, all the farmers still prefer those cows with most of the native Irish blood. The other breed is of a larger size. It is the old or the partially improved Graven or Lancashire beast. It is the true long-horn ; the horns first taking a direction outward, then forming a curve, and returning towards the face, sometimes threatening to pierce the bones of the nose, at other times so to cross before the muzzle that the animal is unable to graze. The following cut represents this large variety of Irish cattle, and is evidently identical with the Craven or Lancashire. In Tipperary, Limerick, Meath, a great part of Munster, and particularly in Ros- common, many of these cattle are found, which are most valuable 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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