Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . LONGHOKN HEAD OF ;iH()UN COW. The horns of this breed of cattle grow in siu h u as to be very curve forward, and hang down toward the muzzle, somelinies curving inwarduntil they touch the cheek. The colors of the animal are generally dark red, brindled,and pied, with white along tlie
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . LONGHOKN HEAD OF ;iH()UN COW. The horns of this breed of cattle grow in siu h u as to be very curve forward, and hang down toward the muzzle, somelinies curving inwarduntil they touch the cheek. The colors of the animal are generally dark red, brindled,and pied, with white along tlie backs. The females are very broad in the hips and aregood milkers. One hundred years qgo these cattle were more highly esteenutl in En-gland than other breeds, becnuse they were suiiposed to be the most desirable fordiiry purposes; but they h:ive been superseded by the shorthorns, although many ofthe latter have a strain of their more ancient predecessors. For these reasons Mr. Youatt considers the Middle-Horns to be thenative breed of Great Britain. CHAPTER II. STRUCTURE OF THE OX. I. COMPARATIVE DESCRIPTION. II. A GOOD COW DESCRIBED IN VERSE. III. SKELETON OF THE OX. IV. ANALYSING THE HEAD. V. EXTERNAL PARTS OF A FAT OX. VI. TEETH OF THE OX. VII. AGE OF CATTLE TOLD BY THE C
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