. 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. Agriculture. Book VII. CRITERIA OF THK BULL FAMILY. lOU general; and their beef, though high-coloured, is very well flavoured. 1 have
. 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. Agriculture. Book VII. CRITERIA OF THK BULL FAMILY. lOU general; and their beef, though high-coloured, is very well flavoured. 1 have seen, says Culley, some very useful cattle bred from a cross between an Alderney cow and a short-horned bull 6S()-5. The Irish cattle, Culley thinks, are a mixed breed between the Inng-horns and the Welsh or Scotch, but more int-lined to the long-horns, though of less weight than those in England. 68(>t. The variety of cattle we shall mention is one entirely of luxury, it is the wild breed (Jig. 863.) which is found only iii the parks of a few great proprietors, who preserve the animals as curious and 863. ornamental, or for the sake of their high-flavoured beef Those kept at Chillingham Castle, in North- umberland, a seat belonging to the Earl of Tankerville, have been very accurately described in the Northumberland Report, and in CuUey's book on live stock, so often quoted. 'I'lieir colour is invariably of a creamy white ; muzzle black ; the whole of the inside of the ear, and about one third-of the outside, from the tips downward, red ; horns white, with black tips, very tine, and bent upwards; some of the bulls have a thin upright mane, about an inch and a half or two inches long. The weight of the oxen is from thirty-five to forty-five stone, and the cows from twenty-five to thirty-five stone the four quarters (fourteen pounds to the stone). The beef is finely marbled, and of excellent flavour. From the nature of their pasture, and the frequent agitation they are
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