CHAPTER V 



CATTLE LONGHORNS AND HEREFORDS 



The Longhorn Breed Low on its Habitat Gilpin's Observations 

 Bakewell Other Early Breeders Fowler and Chapman Points 

 of the Original and of the Improved Breed Competition with the 

 Shorthorn Horn Dimensions, Shape and Origin Colour Crosses 

 As Dairy Cattle The Longhorn Cattle Society and Herd Book The. 

 Hereford Breed Points of Interest Tomkins and Hewer Other 

 Early Breeders Youatt and other Authorities Wonderful Records 

 Christison's Results at Lammermoor William Tudge on Prominent 

 Modern Herefords Milking Properties Working Qualities Polled 

 Herefords Their Origin and Characteristics. 



AS now seen in this country, the Longhorn is a remnant 

 of a breed which during the eighteenth century and 

 the first decade of the nineteenth century held a position of 

 high importance as a milking breed and as a producer of 

 large carcases of coarse beef. During that period, when the 

 work of field cultivation was mostly done by oxen, it was 

 said to be the most widely distributed and the most valuable 

 British breed of cattle. 



Professor Low's Domesticated Animals says: "The true 

 Longhorns seem to have been the inhabitants of the western 

 parts of the British Isles. They extended nearly over all the 

 plains of Ireland and the greater part of the mountains, and yet 

 (1845) form the prevailing race of that country. In England 



they occupied Lancashire, extended northward into Cumber- 

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