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AMERICAN CATTLE. 



"The Galloway is covered with a loose, mellow skin of medium 

 thickness, and which is clothed with long, soft, silky hair. The 

 skin is thinner than that of the Leicestershire, but not so fine as 

 the hide of the improved Durham breed, but it handles soft and 

 kindly. Even on the moorland farms, where the cattle, during 

 the greater part of the year, are fed on the scantiest fare, it is 

 remarkable how little their hides indicate the privations they 

 endure. 



Plate 12. Galloway Bull. 



"The prevailing and the fashionable color is black a few are 

 of a dark brindled brown, and still fewer are speckled with white 

 spots, and some of them are of a dun or drab color, perhaps 

 acquired from a cross with the Suffolk breed of cattle. Dark 

 colors are uniformly preferred, from the belief that they indicate 

 hardness of constitution.* 



" * Mr. Culley, who is great authority in these cases, thus describes the Gallo- 

 ways: 'In most respects, except wanting horns, these cattle resemble the long- 

 horns, both in color and shape, only they are shorter in their form, which probably 

 makes them weigh less. Their hides seem to be a medium between the long and the 

 short-horns ; not so thick, as the former, nor so thin as the latter ; and, like the best 

 feeding kind of long-horns, they lay their fat upon the most valuable parts, and their 

 beef is well marbled or mixed with fat. They are mostly bred upon the moors or 



