CHAPTER VI f 



CATTLE THE WEST HIGHLAND, WELSH BLACK, GLA- 

 MORGAN, OLD GLOUCESTER, AND ORKNEY AND 

 SHETLAND 



The West Highland History Improvement or Development Bullocks 

 Falkirk Trysts Breed Points Colour The Atholl Herd 

 Crosses with other Breeds Black Welsh Cattle Breed Societies 

 Historical Authorities : Harvey, Marshall, Low, and Youatt South 

 Wales Type North Wales Type Welsh " Runts" White Belted- 

 White Breed Lamphey Court White Herd The Glamorgan Breed 

 and its Extinction The Old Gloucester Breed Historical Authori- 

 ties : Morgan, Evans, Youatt, and Marshall Present Breeders 

 Orkney and Shetland Cattle Origin Youatt and Low. 



THE West Highland Breed belongs to the Western 

 Islands of Scotland (the Outer and Inner Hebrides) 

 and to Argyllshire and the adjoining counties. 



It is the remaining" selected representative of the 

 different varieties of Scottish mountain cattle, the domesti- 

 cated descendants of the ancient breed of the forests. 



The historical preface to Volume I. of the Highland Herd 

 Book^(\%&$ says: 



"Various classes of the breed have been made, but it 

 is thought that there are really only two distinct classes 

 (which have since been merged in one breed), namely, the 

 West Highland and the Highlander, or Mainland High- 

 lander." 



The West Highland, or Kiloe, 2 was originally black, 

 and smaller and shaggier than the Highlander, being kept in 

 more exposed and altogether harder circumstances. The 



1 First suggested by the Earl of Dunmore in the Highland Society 

 showyard at the Centenary Show in Edinburgh in 1884. 



2 Two explanations are given of this word. The more plausible 

 derives it from the kiloes, or ferries, that separated the islands from the 

 mainland, and the second from the Gaelic for " Highland." 



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