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have been of late years frequently changed, 

 either wholly or partially, by a cross with 

 cattle in a more natural state, and so far as 

 we are acquainted with the facts resulting from 

 this change, with excellent results. 



The old short horns, which thirty years ago 

 came from Yorkshire in such crowds to London 

 to supply it with milk, had become coarse, long- 

 legged, ill-shapen, and delicate. They re- 

 quired expensive food and fattened slowly, 

 yielding a large quantity of milk, but little 

 either of curd or butter. This race has been 

 renovated within a few years by a cross with 

 a hardier breed, that is, with one in a more 

 natural condition, and the produce is known 

 under the name of the " new short horns." 

 This race is a great improvement upon the old 

 one, and has spread over all our dairy counties, 

 displacing the race of long horns which forty 

 years ago occupied those districts. The long 

 horns, as a race, had little antiquity to 

 boast of, for Lisle, who wrote towards the end 

 of the 17th century, says, "that in his time 

 the dairy counties of York, Derby, Stafford, 

 and Lancashire, were occupied with black 

 cattle having wide spreading horns." This 



