Crooked knees or gambrels, causing an outward projection of the feet, deduct 3. ART. 17.--_Tail_, set on full and round, at a level with the back, small in the cord, and finishing with a tassel of white hair. 2 ART. 18.--_Carcass_ or _Barrel_, round and straight, its posterior ribs springing nearly horizontal from the vertebra, with less curve as they approach the posterior plates, with full and well developed anterior plates covering deep the springing rib. 4 ART. 19.--_Color_, always red, but of different shades. A medium red should be preferred; the very dark red coming slower to maturity, their beef of poorer quality, of less weight, and inferior milking qualities; the light red less hardy, but claim earlier maturity and superior beef qualities. Some white about the udder is common to all the various shades, but confined to that part alone. In all cases the color grows lighter about the muzzle, while a color, verging almost to a black and growing yet darker about the head, always was a very objectionable color for the true North Devon, and when accompanied with a dark nose should be rejected. 2 ART. 20.--_--Hair_, should be short, thick, and fine; even throughout the body, and short about the head; a long, coarse foretop, accompanied by harsh, wiry hair elsewhere, objectionable. 2 ART. 21.--_Udder_, should be wide and well spread, projecting well forward and back, wide between the teats but not hanging; with milk veins large and extending well forward. 9 ART. 22.--_Carriage_, the Devons having, from their excellence in the yoke, another destiny besides that of the butcher's block, it is important that the animal's carriage should indicate as much; to obtain this, something of the heavy, inert, squarely moulded frame of the merely beefing animal must be relinquished for a lighter and more active frame. 3