192 THE CATTLE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



to improve tlie stock. The Glamorgans for several years 

 became great favourites. They were valuable in the dairy, and 

 no meat in the butcher's stalls showed more quality, nor would 

 any other breed vie with them in thick marbling throughout 

 the carcase. Many of them were fattened at three years old 

 for the butcher, and the Treguff cattle have taken upwards of 

 sixty prizes at the Tredegar and other shows against Herefords, 

 Durhams, Devons, &c. A prize given at one of the Tredegar 

 shows for * the best three-year-old beast of any breed ' was 

 awarded to my three-year-old, weighing nineteen score a 

 quarter, and he was sold to a Newport butcher for 63Z. After 

 my brother's death, and at the expiration of the lease of 

 Treguff farm in 1850, the stock were all disposed of by 

 auction; the breeding portion became crossed with such de- 

 scription of animals as were at the time in the purchaser's 

 possession." 



The Grlamorgan cattle produced a rare quality of meat, highly 

 prized in the metropolitan and provincial markets. They were 

 profitable to the butchers, being well lined inside with tallow, 

 and their meat, from its first-rate quality, always commanded 

 the highest price. The average weight of cows, says one who 

 wrote in 1814, was at that time from eight to ten scores, and 

 oxen from twelve to fourteen scores per quarter. Youatt thus 

 describes the breed : " They were of a dark brown, with white 

 bellies, and a streak of white along the back from the shoulder 

 to the tail. They had clean heads, tapering from the neck and 

 shoulders ; long white horns, turning upwards ; and a lively 

 countenance. Their dewlaps were small, the hair short, and 

 the coat silky. If there was any fault, it was that the rump, 

 or setting on of the tail, was too high above the level of the 

 back to accord with modern notions of true symmetry." 



Martin says they were a superior breed, " generally of a red 

 or brown-red colour, often with white faces, and otherwise 

 varied with white. The head was small, the aspect lively, the 

 neck inclined to be arched, the carcase round and well turned, 

 the back rising to the root of the tail, which was peculiarly 

 elevated." That the Grlamorgans had white faces is incorrect. 

 Youatt also errs in a similar way, for he illustrates his descrip- 

 tion of them with a drawing of a white-faced cow from the 



