OF SCOTLAND.
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carcase; the limbs clean, but short; and the skin soft. Theyare wide between the extreme points of the hook-bones; theribs are narrow and wide set, and have a greater curvaturethan in other kinds, which gives the body a thick round form.They fatten quickly, and fill up well at all the choice points.They are hardy, fleet, and travel well; tame and docile, andexcellent for work, whether in the plough or in the cart *.—And as the Fife cattle are in high estimation for the sham-bles, so they are of equal repute for the dairy. A good Fifecow will give from 10 to 14 pints of milkier day, (2 Scotchpints are nearly equal to an English gallon), from 7 to 9 lb.of butter, and from 10 to 12 lb. of cheese 'per week, tronweight, for some months, after calving f.”
A bull of this breed was measured by two members of theFife Farming Society, and the following statement will en-able the reader to compare its proportions with those of other1 breeds.
Feet Inches.
Length of the head,
2
0
Ditto from the root of the horn to the rump,
8
4
Ditto from the root of the horn to the top of theshoulders, -
2
6i
Ditto of the horn, -
1
Oi
Distance from point to point of ditto,
1
10
Girth of the body at the shoulder,
7
6i
Ditto before the hough bones,
7
8 1
Ditto fore-leg, smallest part, between the knee andhoof, -
0
91
Ditto hinder-leg, at ditto,
0
9-r
Ditto fore-leg, at fore-spald,
2
0
Height at the shoulder, - - -
4
11
Ditto at the hough bone,
4
11
Fife Report, p. 251.
Ibid. p. 25.5.