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 . red?) without horns, but in regard to color and othercattle characteristics strongly resembling the Short Horns. So much for this tirade which fell still born. During the life of the great Dr. Johnson, soon after he had compiled hisdictionary, he received a visit from the then Duke of Argyle, surnamed theGreat. The Doctor ha
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 . red?) without horns, but in regard to color and othercattle characteristics strongly resembling the Short Horns. So much for this tirade which fell still born. During the life of the great Dr. Johnson, soon after he had compiled hisdictionary, he received a visit from the then Duke of Argyle, surnamed theGreat. The Doctor had the habit of keeping notable people Avaiting beforehe received them. The Duke amused himself Avhile waiting in looking overthe then new dictionary. The Doctor saluted him and observed, Oh, mylord, I see you have my dictionary. How do you like it ? The Duke replied, sarcastically,They are braw stories but unko the way. Doctor, I see here the word Aits (Scotch for oats) food forhorses in England and men in Scotland, and where, mon, will you findsuch horses and such men? The Polled Durham breeders can aptly replyto cavillers, Where will you find such a combination of milk and beef asin the Polled Durhams? OF LIVE STOCK AXD COMPLETE STOCK MIDDLE-HORNED CATTLE THE DEVON AND THE SUSSEX. 719 XIV. Weights of the the Devons are called small cattle, they are only relatively so incomparison with Short-Horns and Herefords. A full-grown ox in goodcondition will weigh from 1,400 to 1,600 pounds, and when well-fatteneuthey will reach 2,000 pounds. The cows will weigh from 800 to 1,100pounds, and the bulls 1,200 to 1,400. We bred one that at 8 years oldweighed 1,819 pounds, and he was as extraordinary in his fineness andstyle, as a premium taker, as he was in weight; not large to look at, butweighing like a lump of lead. XV. Sussex also has long been noted for a breed of middle-horned cattle—all red, but lighter in color than the Dev
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