CHAP. I. HEREFORD AND DEVON BREEDS. 33 



In the "Live Stock Journal Almanac" for 1907 a writer gives the 

 following particulars relating to the progress of the breed in various parts 

 of the world beyond these shores : " The breed increases in popularity 

 in Ireland, and the pure classes at the Dublin Spring Show are very 

 gratifying. Numerous herds of high merit are in existence in the 

 United States, and probably a renewed inquiry will soon arise from that 

 quarter. Estancieros, in South America, the Argentine, Uruguay, and 

 Chili, have been the chief buyers for export during the past year, and 

 they have taken many. From Australia, too, there is a steady demand, 

 which is likely to grow. The Transvaal has secured several specimens, 

 and other portions of South Africa bid fair to require further repre- 

 sentatives of the breed, which does very well in these colonies. 



Mr. W. C. Britten, secretary of the Hereford Herd-book Society, 

 informs us that during the year ended September 26, 1906, the export 

 certificates granted numbered 375, as compared with 166 in the 

 preceding year. Of the number exported, 360 went to South America, 

 8 to South Africa, 3 to New. Zealand, 2 to British East Africa, and 1 to 

 the United States." The preponderance of the number for South America 

 is striking. 



THE DEVON BREED is found in its purest and best form in North 

 Devon, in the agricultural report of which district the peculiar qualities of 

 the Devon (figs. 5 and 6) are thus described by the late Mr. Vancouver : 



" Its head is small, clean, and free from flesh about the jaws ; deer- 

 like, light and airy in its countenance ; neck long and thin ; throat 

 free from jowl or dewlap ; nose and round its eyes of a dark orange 

 colour ; ears thin and pointed, tinged on their inside with the same 

 colour that is always found to encircle its eyes ; horns thin, and fine to 

 their roots, of a cream colour, tipped with black, 1 growing with a 

 regular curve upwards, and rather springing from each other ; light in 

 the withers, resting on a shoulder a little retiring and spreading, and 

 so rounded below as to sink all appearance of its pinion in the body of 

 the animal ; open bosom, with a deep chest or keel ; small and taper- 

 ing below the knee, fine at and above the joint, and where the arm 

 begins to increase it becomes suddenly lost in the shoulder; line of 

 the back straight from the withers to the rump, lying completely on a 

 level with the pin, or huckles, which lie wide and open ; the hind- 

 quarters seated high with flesh, leaving a fine hair-ham tapering from 

 the hock to the fetlock ; long from rump to huckle, and from the 

 pinion of the shoulder to the end of the nose ; thin loose skin, covered 

 with hair of a soft and furry nature, inclined to curl whenever the 

 animal is in good condition and in full coat, when it also becomes 

 mottled with darker shades of its permanent colour, which is that of a 

 bright blood red, without white or other spots, particularly on the 

 male ; a white udder is sometimes passed over, but seldom without 

 objection. 



1 Arthur Young, secretary to the old Board of Agriculture, describes the thorough -bred 

 Devons as of a bright red, neck and head small, eye prominent, and round it a ring of bright 

 yellow ; the nose round, the nostril having the same colour ; the horn clear and transparent, 

 upright, tapering, and gently curved, but not tipped with black. 



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