182 CATTLE SHEETED OR BELTED GALLOWAYS 



gradually diminished and the bean meal increased, to firm 

 up the flesh. 1 



At the carcase competition at Smithfield in 1895, a 

 Galloway bullock from Chapelton weighed 12 cwts. 3 qrs. 

 3 Ibs. alive, and dressed to 8 cwts. 3 qrs. I lb., or 68-3 per cent, 

 at two years and ten months, the record percentage for the 

 year ; but he was considered rather fat. 



Subjoined is a list of the breeders of the most prominent 

 herds : Earl of Antrim, Glenarm Castle, Larne, Antrim ; 

 Thomas Biggar & Sons, Chapelton, Dalbeattie ; A. H. 

 Fox Brockbank, Croft, Kirksanton, Carnforth ; David Brown, 

 Stepford, Auldgirth ; Duke of Buccleuch, K.G., K.T., Drum- 

 lanrig Castle, Thornhill ; Robert I. Calwell, Ballyboley, 

 Ballymore, Co. Antrim, Ireland ; R. D. B. Cuninghame, of 

 Hensol, New-Galloway ; John Cunningham, Durhamhill, 

 Dalbeattie ; Robert Graham, Auchengassel, Twynholm ; Sir 

 R. Jardine, Bart, of Castlemilk, Lockerbie ; J. Murray 

 Kennedy, of Knocknalling, Dairy, Galloway ; A. B. Matthews, 

 Knockstocks, Newton-Stewart ; Major W. Maxwell, of 

 Glenlair, Dalbeattie ; William M'Conchie, Mains of Penning- 

 hame, Newton-Stewart ; Wm. M'Connell, Glasnick, Kirk- 

 cowan ; John M'Cormick, Lochenkit, Corsock, Dalbeattie ; 

 R. and J. Shennan, Balig, Kirkcudbright ; H. C. Stephens, 

 Cholderton Lodge, Cholderton, Salisbury ; James Wilson, 

 Tundergarth Mains, Lockerbie. 



Sheeted, Belted, or White-middled Galloways form one 

 of the oldest and concurrently one of the most valuable 

 strains of this ancient Scottish breed. 2 



Low mentions : " The sheeted breed of Somerset, now 

 extinct, which had existed in the same part of England 

 from time immemorial. The red colour of the hair has a 

 light yellow tinge, and the white colour passes like a sheet 

 over the body. ' The head, the neck, the shoulders, and 

 the hind parts appear as if they were uncovered, while 

 there is a sheet fairly and perfectly thrown over the 



1 Indebtedness is due to Prof. Kennedy's article in Wallace's Farmer, 

 3 ist March 1905. 



2 A painting by Gourlay Steel, R.S.A., of a good type of a three- 

 year-old belted ox, the property of Patrick Dudgeon, of Cargen, Dumfries, 

 shown at the Highland Society's Show at Dumfries in 1870, hangs in the 

 Society's Chambers at 3 George IV. Bridge, Edinburgh. 



