318 J?/> and Pror/rcss of SI i or f harm. 



yards, and that a race with shortov horns and earlier maturity 

 from " the banks of the stately Tees " would ruthlessly push 

 them from their place and reduce them to a mere fraction in the 

 Midlands, never vexed his soul. Their hold of public favour 

 had been long and sure, and their greatest triumph was to come. 

 If " Two-Pounder " had then the rejiutation of earning 800 

 guineas in one season and serving some picked home ewes as 

 well, the Dishley bull "Two Penny "was fated to make the herd 

 of Fowler of Rollright, and swell its sale average to 81/. 145. "dd. 

 for fifty-one ! 



Longhorns of some kind or another, and generally with good 

 milk-marks and the faculty of fattening at a great age, were at 

 this ])eri()d the farmers' friends. They excited the admiration of 

 Dr. Johnson in Derbyshire, and led him to note that his host, 

 " whose talk is of bullocks,'' sold one of them for 100 guineas. 

 As good prices were obtained for the armcnta fronte lata, — those 

 blacks with white backs which Sir A. Ramsay took to Scotland 

 as a cross for the Aberdeenshire, and whose horn practice in 

 Garstang market was duly felt and recorded by Pennant as he 

 journeyed towards the Hebrides. l^'arther north, the Lortons 

 liad such wide-spreading horns that they were taught from calves 

 to incline their heads at an angle on entering the byre. Tlie Lake 

 district could also boast of the white Lysicks, " whose horns and 

 lofty carriage made them suitable for topping the Yorkshire 

 dealers' lots ;" and their neighbours, the Lamplugh Hawkies, 

 bore a strong afhnitv, both in colour and look, to the white and 

 mottle-faced Here fords. 



The Holderness, a fine, large-framed breed, with good^backs, 

 long quarters, remarkably clean, straight legs, and well-developed 

 udders, grazed in the district north of the Humber. Many of 

 them were white, with blue or bay flecks : but the largest number 

 were dark mouse and white, and, as was natural from their 

 proximity to Hull and their genenil appearance, they were 

 thought to be of Dutch origin. Milk was their specialty, and 

 Mr. Curwen was wont to value the dairy produce of his twenty 

 at 25/. a year. Under the local name of " Teeswaters," the 

 shorthorns, to which the Holderness seemed to bear most affinity 

 in character, had got a strong hold in Durham several years 

 before the close of the century; but still it was not until "The 

 Durham Ox" commenced his six years of caravan life in 1801 

 that the doom of the longhorns was virtually sealed. 



The Teeswater were cattle of great substance, but somewhat 

 ungainly in form, and were thought to give less but richer milk 

 than the Holderness. The fragments of history on Avhich their 

 origin rests are somewhat shadowy and uncertain. Some contend 

 there from that they must be of Dutch origin, and only another 



