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which was pretty true to type, although crossing with other 

 breeds had been introduced. 



The old Gloucester breed at Badminton has been 

 preserved from extinction by the Duke of Beaufort. 

 Morgan Evans, in Colemaris Cattle of Great Britain, ex- 

 presses the belief that they were descended from the Welsh 

 breed, which at one time extended into Monmouth and 

 Gloucester. He goes on to say : 



" The true Gloucester cow shows a good deal of character* 

 being a lengthy, good-looking animal, with light fore but deep 

 hind quarters, and good milking points. The body is brown ; 

 head, nose, and legs black ; horns well-shaped and white, with 

 black tips ; tail and top of rump white ; udder white with 

 black teats ; and tongue on upper side and end also black. 

 The great peculiarity is the white mark, which extends from 

 the loin along the ridge of the tail, and down between the 

 hind-legs to the fore-part of the udder." 



In 1834 Youatt refers to them as, "nearly extinct, and 

 evidently of Welsh origin, mingled with the Hereford, and 

 sometimes with the cattle further inland. They were the 

 Glamorgans chiefly, but upon a larger scale, and of a different 

 colour. The Glamorgans are black, or inclined to brown ; 

 the Old Gloucesters were either red or brown. The bones were 

 small and the carcase light, scarcely averaging more than 

 twelve score per quarter. The bag was thin, yet large, and 

 the milk abundant and long-continued. The characteristic 

 mark was said to be a streak of white, generally along the 

 back and always at the root of the tail." 



Marshall at an earlier date (1789) writes of " the character- 

 istic colour black-red, provincially brown ; with the face and 

 neck inclined to black ; the head mostly small ; neck long ; 

 shoulders fine and generally clean ; the carcass mostly long ; 

 the hide thin and the hair short ; the horns of some winding, 

 with a double bend in the middle-horned manner. . . . For 

 dairy cows I have not, in my own judgment, seen a better 

 form ; and it was this breed which raised the Gloucestershire 

 dairy to its greatest height." * 



Reference is made to the superior qualities of the Bodding- 

 ton breed. In 1783, he asserts, the vale dairy cows were mostly 

 of the Gloucester breed, and had been so for time immemorial ; 

 but they were rapidly supplanted or crossed by the Stafford- 



1 With this view Youatt disagrees, declaring that "almost every 

 variety of breed is found there, and the milk of all is mingled together." 



