Volume 67: Macarthur family papers relating to livestock, 1814-1884: No. 216

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The Paris Prize bull the sire of your largest bull had to be sold this season to the butcher having grown so large that no cow could carry him, his size induced by feeding prepairing him for exhibiting.  The grey sent you is much beyond the ordinary size the cow the ordinary size.  The little bull is small the larger the medium size.  Had you only come to Scotland and taken an inspection of the Ayrshires perhaps you would 
 

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