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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 e'ncrease' of that seemed to be the only desi dcratum. 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 Sligo's Brown Jack. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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