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Excerpt from Statistical Survey of the County of Clare: With Observations on the Means of Improvement; Drawn Up for the Consideration, and by Direction of the Dublin Society
Ireland. They seemed to be totally ignorant of the distinctions between the difi'erent breeds of animals; no discrimination, no knowledge of the value of green food, &c. &c. In short they could listen to nothing, or talk of nothing but their own breed (certainly a very good one); size, size, size, was every thing, and an encrease of that seemed to be the only desi deratum. I am perfectly convinced that, if a pair of long horns could be placed on the big head of a thick-limbed Holderness bull, he would be preferred to the Marquis of Slige'r Brown Jack.
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