Cattle 1853 - Lewis Family Farm

18 CATTLE.
The more perfect specimens of the Devon hreed are thus distinguished.
The horn of the bull ought to be neither too low nor too
high, tapering at the points, not too thick at the root, white below,
and of a yellow or waxy color at the tip. The eye should be clear,
bright, and prominent, showing much of the white, and have around
it a circle of a dark orange color. The forehead should be flat, in-
dented, and small, for, by the smallness of the forehead, the purity
of the breed is very much estimated. The cheek should be small,
and the muzzle fine : the nose must be of a clear yellow. The nostril
should be high and open : the hair curled about the head. The
neck should be thick, and that sometimes almost to a fault.
Excepting in the head and neck, the form of the bull does not
materially differ from that of the ox, but he is considerably smaller.
There are exceptions, however, to this rule.
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WORKING DEVON OX.
The head of the ox is small, very singularly so, relatively to his
bulk ; yet it has a striking breadth of forehead, It is clean and free
from flesh about the jaws. The eye is very prominent, and the animal
has a pleasing vivacity of countenance, distinguishing it from
the heavy aspect of many other breeds. Its neck is long and thin,
admirably adapting it for the collar, or the more common and ruder
yoke.
It is accounted one of the characters of good cattle, that the line
of the neck from the horns to the -withers should scarcely deviate