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one, and with better dairying aptitude, is, I was told, acquiring a good degree 

 of popularity. 



The shaggy Highland cattle are, I suppose, more ornamental than useful, 

 although I have no doubt that they could not be replaced with any degree 

 of advantage in the rough country to which they are confined. The 46 

 entries at Dumfries made a most picturesque exhibit, and indeed I saw 

 several Highland cows with bags that would put to shame many an ordinary 

 dairy cow. 



There were 59 Ayrshire entries. As at the Liverpool show, I was impressed 

 with the fact that the bulls appeared to lack masculinity and had an almost 

 steer-like appearance. Does selection in the direction of heavy milk pro. 



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Champion Clydesdale Mare at the 1910 Show of the Highland Agricultural 

 Society at Dumfries. 



duction have this tendency ? If so, it is certain that in the end it will prove 

 prejudicial to the breed. 



The draught stock was represented by 161 entries, including geldings, 

 all of which I took to be Clydesdales, although it was not expressly so stated 

 in the official catalogue. As at Liverpool, where they were, perhaps, inade- 

 quately represented, I was again disappointed in the Clydesdales as a whole. 

 They appear to me to lack in massiveness and compactness, to be loosely 

 built, slack, and even at times, flat-ribbed. If there is nothing better to 

 be seen in Great Britain than what I saw both at Liverpool and Dumfries, 



