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pear to lose activity or to feel the severity of the weather as might be 

 expected, but is as happy and contented, when thoroughly dry, as if in 

 a warm stable upon plenty of straw. The hardy constitution of the 

 breed enables it (and this is somewhat strange) to withstand the fatigue 

 of long journeys to market towns as well as it withstands the cold of 

 winter ; and when it is found necessary to drive any of the beasts to 

 fairs, at distances of from 100 to 200 miles, they usually arrive in a 

 much fresher condition than any other animal known to the cattle 

 dealer. 



It is stated above that Galloway beef is favored in the London market 

 by the butchers ; indeed it may not bo known that it is classed as prime 

 Scot, a term so well known to readers of the London newspapers, where 

 the price of meat is quoted. It has repeatedly been proved, not only 

 by the meat salesmen themselves, but by breeders and feeders, that no 

 beast obtains a higher price, not even the Aberdeen, and certainly not 

 the Shorthorn or the Hereford. In fact it is very seldom that meat of 

 any kind, at the Christmas market especially, reaches the quality of the 

 best Galloway. Testimonies without number could easily be obtained, 

 and several have been obtained by the Galloway society and published 

 in their description of the breed, in which butchers in various parts of 

 the country have testified to the quality and value of the meat. The 

 Galloways are generally considered to dress to the extent of 60 percent, 

 of their live weight, and occasionally an animal is found to exceed this, 

 which, it will be admitted, is exceptionally good. This depends chiefly 

 upon the system of the feeder and on the management of the animals. 



The following quotation from the description of the Galloway by the 

 editor of the Herd-book, will be of some value in arriving at a knowl- 

 edge upon this point : 



While these may be regarded as an average, far heavier weights have 

 been reached whenever an effort has been made to force forward individ- 

 ual animals. It appears from the catalogues of the Smithfleld Fat Stock 

 Show that in 1883 a pure-bred Galloway steer, at two years ten months 

 three weeks old, weighed 19 cwts. 20 pounds, viz, 2,148 pounds weight 

 when 1,055 days old, which makes an average of 2 pounds daily increrse 

 in live weight. 



In 1882 a pedigree Galloway steer, two years nine months one week 

 old, weighed 17 cwt.18 pounds, viz, 1,922 pounds weight when 1,004 days 

 old, which shows an average of 1.91 pounds per day of increase. An- 

 other pedigree Galloway at the same show turned the scales at locwt. 

 2 quarters 18 pounds, when two years eight months three weeks old, 

 viz, 1,754 pounds weight when 973 days old, which is equivalent to 1.8 

 pounds of daily increase. It seems remarkable that at the principal 

 cattle shows in England the Galloway is seldom seen, and this is more 

 particularly the case at the Christmas fat-stock exhibitions. The de- 

 mand being considerable, and as the breeders live at a great distance 

 and do not care for the system of forcing cattle for exhibition, they 



