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Title: Cattle
Identifier: cattle__00youa (find matches)
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Youatt, William, 1776-1847; Martin, William Charles Linnæus, 1798-1864; Stevens, A
Subjects: Cattle; Cattle
Publisher: New-York, C. M. Saxton
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THE SHORT-HORxVS. 109 breeding from too close affinities, and, while they steer clear of coarseness, should require a sufficiency of masculine character in their males. This is a point in which many short-horns are rather defective, and it is one of infinite importance. The length of the carcass should be medium, as well as that of the legs, and a hardier animal, with equal size and on a more profitable scale, will be pro- duced. The facilities for making this improvement are sufficiently numerous, the short-horns being now more generally diffused. That wider diffusion also multiplies the means of selecting for milk ; a quality which should not be lost sight of; for it is the comhination of perfections which has conferred, and will perpetuate, the superiority of this breed of cattle.
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LORD ALTHORP S BULL. The colors of the short-horns are red or white, or a mixture of the two, combining in endless variety, and producing, very frequently, most brilliant effect. The white, it is very probable, they obtained from an early cross with the wild breed ; and w^henever this color shows itself, it is accompanied, more or less, with a red tinge on the extremity of the ear ; a distinctive character, also, of the wild cattle. ^o jnire short-horns are fourd of any colors but those above named.

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