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in the primeval forests of the country. From among animals of 

 many colours common to the breed swan-white sports with black 

 points, similar to those of the wild park cattle, now and then ap- 

 pear to indicate their ancestral connections. One of the four 

 remaining wild herds, that at Vaynol Park, Bangor, North Wales, 

 but originally from Blair Atholl, Perthshire, was regenerated and 

 saved from extinction by the introduction of pure-white West High- 

 land blood. 



Suitability for Severe Climates. Its exceptional robustness of 

 constitution and numerous good qualities will in time also find it 

 a conspicuous place in our Colonies and in foreign countries such 

 as the exposed South-Western parts of Argentina, when the relation- 

 ship of the animal constitution to varying conditions of soil, climate 

 and other natural surroundings are more fully investigated and better 

 understood. 



THE WELSH BLACK CATTLE. Welsh Black Cattle are now the 

 sole remaining breed of importance out of several that once existed 

 in the Principality. They are natives of Carmarthen and all the 

 western seaboard counties from Pembroke to Anglesea. Up till 1904, 

 when Wales Herd Registers were united, there were supposed to 

 be two breeds or types which differed in certain characteristics 

 although mainly sprung from a common origin. The breed as a 

 whole is noted for hardiness of constitution, aptitude for dairying 

 purposes, and docility. 



Black Welsh cattle have been much improved by selection within 

 the last quarter of a century, and their constitutional vigour has not 

 been weakened by in-and-in breeding. Their hardiness and other 

 good qualities single them out as belonging to a type of general- 

 purpose animal that would suit the pioneer settler in a new 

 country; for the oxen have been for generations as noted in the 

 yoke as the cow at the milk-pail and the " runt " as a producer of 

 prime beef. 



GLOUCESTER CATTLE. The old Gloucester is a remnant of a 

 superior milking breed which is supposed to have been an offshoot 

 of the heavier and darker but similarly-marked Glamorgan cattle, 

 that are now extinct, but were at one time numerous in the cheese- 

 making districts of Gloucester and some of the adjacent counties, 

 The milk, being rich in cream in small globules, was especially 

 suited for cheese-making. The breed in a pure state has been 

 preserved from extinction by the Dukes of Beaufort at Badminton, 

 and some five or six other breeders own specimens of it more or 

 less pure. 



