232 THE SHORT-HORNED BREED. 



black, with thick horns turned upwards. They arfe 

 quick feeders. 



The Suffolk duns are a small breed reared in that 

 county principally, and supposed by Mr Culley to be 

 a variety occasioned by an intercourse with the nor- 

 thern droves. They are a polled. breed, or without 

 horns ; the colour dun, but it commonly varies. 

 They are esteemed for the dairy. 



The Alderney breed is a very pretty and handsome 

 race, finely made, and with slender limbs. They are 

 of a light reddish or yellow colour, sometimes black, 

 but are impatient of the cold of this climate, and do 

 not thrive unless with extra care and keeping. They 

 are kept for the richness of their milk. In many 

 places a cross between some of our hardy smaller 

 races has been found useful, and they then bear the 

 climate of this country. 



Galloway polled breed, as their name implies, is 

 originally from Galloway, a rather wild district in 

 the south of Scotland. They are now the most com* 

 mon cattle in that district and Dumfriesshire, where 

 they are reared and grazed from two to four years 

 old, at which period they are driven to the Norfolk, 

 Suffolk, and some other Southern markets, to be 

 farther fed ; whence they reach Smithfield, and the 

 other London markets, and there yield a high price 

 from the superior quality of the beef. 



The prominent feature in this breed is the want 

 of horns ; a peculiarity which is very striking to an 



