The evils of conformation, like the good qualities, are transmitted generally by the act of generation. If it does not have the ability to do this, one should quickly correct it.
Here the bovine race has been much neglected in all these respects. A judicious choice, and a scrupulous attention is not always prevalent in selecting a breeding animal; thus it results in a fatal re-generation, to which it is time to put a stop.
Before giving the distinctive characteristics of the ten classes of bulls, it will be useful to mention those classes which are oftener met in French and foreign races; and also those which are more rare.
The classes which are most distributed, and which present the greatest number of bulls, are in all races these three classes: 1. The Curved-line; 2. The Limousine; 3. The Horizontal.
The classes on the contrary, which present but a very small number of subjects are in the following order:
- 4. Demijohn.
- 5. Bicorne.
- 6. Square-cut.
- 7. Selvage.
- 8. Left Flanders.
- 9. Double Selvage.
- 10. Flanders.
GUERNSEY BULL RADLEY, No. 209.
Property of S. C. Kent, West Grove, Pa.