. Cattle. Cattle; Cattle. SUSSEX BREED. 33. THE SUSSEX OX. THE SUSSEX CATTLE. Some of the ancient Britons sought refuge from the attacks of their invaders, amid the fastnesses of the Weald of East Sussex. Thither they drove, or there they found, some of the native cattle of the country ; and, they anxiously preserved them free from all admix- ture. The resemblance between the Sussex and the Devon oxen is very great. They unquestionably betray the same origin. The Sussex ox has a small and well formed head, compared with many other breeds, and even with the Hereford, but evidently coarser than
. Cattle. Cattle; Cattle. SUSSEX BREED. 33. THE SUSSEX OX. THE SUSSEX CATTLE. Some of the ancient Britons sought refuge from the attacks of their invaders, amid the fastnesses of the Weald of East Sussex. Thither they drove, or there they found, some of the native cattle of the country ; and, they anxiously preserved them free from all admix- ture. The resemblance between the Sussex and the Devon oxen is very great. They unquestionably betray the same origin. The Sussex ox has a small and well formed head, compared with many other breeds, and even with the Hereford, but evidently coarser than that of the Devon ; the horns pushing forward a little, and then turning upward, thin, tapering and long—not so as to confound this breed with the long horns. The eye is full, large and mild in the ox ; but with some degree of unquietness in the cow. The throat clean, and the neck, compared with either the long horns or the short ones, long and thin, yet evidently coarser than that of the Devon. At the shoulder is the main difference, and the principal defect in the Sussex cattle. There is more wideness and roundness on the withers—it is a straighter line from the summit of the withers toward the back—there is no projecting point of the shoulder when the ani- mal is looked at from behind, but the whole of the fore-quarter is thickly covered with flesh, giving too much weight to the coarser and less profitable parts. This is counterbalanced by many admira- 2*. 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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