Cattle 1853 - Lewis Family Farm

THE FRONTAL SINEUS. 145
The head of the ox may be divided info two parts—the skull and
the face. The cut, page 144, represents a section of both.
The cranium or skull, that portion of the head which contains and
protects the brain, is composed of eight bones : two frontals e, p. 143,
and 6, p. 144 ; one parietal, h, p. 143 ; two temporals, g, p. 143, and/,
p. 144 ; one occipital, i, p. 143 ; and dirndl, p. 144; one ethmoid, n,
and r, p. 144 ; and one sphenoid, m, p. 144.
The frontal bones extend from the nose to the superior ridge of the
skull ; presenting a flattened but irregular surface, and entirely bare
of muscular or fleshy, covering.
KS GILBERT
HEAD OF A SHORT-HORN BULL.
THE FRONTAL BONES.
Nature has given to most cattle a formidable weapon of offence,
the horn. To be effective, it must be securely based ; and it could
only be so, or it could best be so, by this expanse of frontal bone.
From this bone the horn springs, and it is in fact a continuation of
the frontal, (see a, p. 144.) The forehead of the bull is considerably
shorter and broader than that of the cow or the ox in every breed.
This shortness and breadth of forehead is not only characteristic of
difference of sex, but it Is regarded, and properly, as an essential