378 MODERN FARRIEE. 



districts that you meet with the native breed of ky- 

 loes ; a hardy, industrious, and excellent breed of 

 cattle, calculated in every respect to thrive in a cold, 

 exposed, mountainous country, and better adapted j 

 to the cold regions where they are bred, than any 

 other kind we are acquainted Avith. 



47. The Alderney Breed. 



The Alderney breed is only to be met with about 

 the seats of our nobility and gentry, upon account 

 of their giving exceeding rich milk, to support the 

 luxury of the tea-table, &c. But this breed is too 

 delicate and tender ever to be much attended to by 

 our British farmers, because they are not able to 

 bear the cold of this island, particularly the north- 

 most parts of it. They are very fine-boned in gene- 

 ral, light red or yellow in colour, and their beef 

 generally yellow or very high coloured, though very 

 fine in the grain, and well flavoured. They make 

 themselves very fat ; and none of them in the least 

 subject to Iyer, or black flesh. 



48. Value of different Breeds. 



The most general breeds of cattle are the short- 

 horns and the long-horns. Mr. Culley, in speaking 

 of their comparative merits, says, ' The long-horns 

 excel in the thickness and firm texture of the hide, 

 in the length and closeness of the hair, in their beef 

 being finer grained, and more mixed and marbled 

 than that of the short-horns, in weighing more in 

 proportion to their size, and in giving richer milk ; 

 but they are inferior to the short-horns, in giving a 

 less quantity of milk, in weighing less upon the 

 whole, in affording less tallow when killed, in being 

 generally slower feeders, and in being coarser made, 

 and more leathery or bullish in the under side of 

 the neck. In few words, the long-horns excel in 



