134 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



guinea cup championship at Durham County 

 Show. In 1863, shown with Soldier's Bride, 

 she was one of the first-prize pair of cows at 

 the Worcester Royal, and first at the York- 

 shire, Northumberland, North Lancashire, Cra- 

 ven, Halifax and Keighley Shows. 



Queen of the May has been described as al- 

 most a model. Her loins and chine were broad 

 and deeply covered, her head sweetly feminine 

 and her shoulders, girth and neck veins fault- 

 less. Her quarters were long and level; her 

 only weakness being at the thigh. She was 

 unfortunately permanently injured on a rail- 

 way journey. Queen of the Yale and Queen 

 Mab were described in the Journal of the High- 

 land Agricultural Society, after winning first 

 and second respectively at Perth, in the follow- 

 ing language: 



"Queen of the Vale is a cow of faultless proportions, a perfect 

 parallelogram in form, with well-fleshed, obliquely-laid shoulders, 

 a good head and a very sweet neck and bosom, sweeping finely 

 into the shoulders, the points of which are completely hidden by 

 the full neck vein. Queen Mab is, if possible, still more remarka- 

 ble than her sister for her broad, thick, level loins, depth of twist 

 and armful of flank ; but she is now perhaps less faultless, as her 

 hind quarters are becoming plain and patchy from fat. She is, 

 however, equal, if not superior, to Queen of the Vale in her mar- 

 velous capacity of girth, fore rib and bosom. Like her sister, she 

 maintains her cylindrical proportions wonderfully throughout, 

 the ribs retaining their circular form up to the shoulders, with 

 which they blend without any depression either at the crops or 

 behind the elbow, and from thence the fore quarters taper beauti- 

 fully to the head." 



The massive Queen of the Ocean was a royal 

 specimen of her race, with the traditional 



