38 THE COMPLETE GRAZIER. BOOK i. 



are annually exported for breeding purposes to North and South 

 America, Australia, Germany, and other countries, and they are 

 reported as doing exceedingly well in those parts. 



" As to the quality of the beef produced by Devons, it is well known 

 that there can be no better, as is evidenced by beef from this breed 

 being always quoted at the top price in reports of the Smithfield and 

 other markets. 



" They are also good as milking cattle. In Dorsetshire and some parts 

 of Devonshire and Somerset, where there are large dairies, well-bred 

 Devons are let to dairy-men frequently at from 11L to 13L per cow." 



At the Plymouth meeting of the Koyal Agricultural Society of 

 England, 1890, classes were assigned to the SOUTH DEVONS or HAMS, 

 as was the case at the Exeter meeting in 1850. Although the area, in 

 the southern part of Devonshire, upon which these cattle are reared, is 

 comparatively small, large numbers of them are bred for grazing and 

 dairying purposes. Other breeds that have from time to time been 

 introduced into the South Hams have not thriven as well as the local 

 race. Mr. Wallace in his recently published edition of "Farm Live 

 Stock of Great Britain," in writing of the South Hams, says : The 

 cattle belonging to the South Devon division of the breed differ 

 materially in form from the North Devon types, South Devons 

 being larger, coarser, and not so deeply coloured. They perhaps 

 acquired these differences to some extent, and also their greater milk- 

 ing powers, by crossing long ago with Channel Island cattle. This, 

 however, is by no means regarded as an established fact, or accepted 

 among South Devon breeders. These now publish their own Herd- 

 book, the subscribers to Vol. IX. of which (1905) numbered over 

 250." 



Mr. Eldred G. F. Walker writes as follows in the " Live Stock Journal 

 Almanac " : " The Red Rubies in 1906 have been in a very transitional 

 state in continuing the policy of merging the beautifully symmetrical 

 North Devon of the Tors with the bigger weight-carrying type, so 

 favoured on the rich undulating lands of Somerset. The union has 

 given more size on the one hand and toned down the coarseness on the 

 other." 



THE SUSSEX BREED (figs. 7 and 8) differs from the Devon in being larger 

 and coarser. When pure bred, the cattle are invariably of a dark-red 

 colour ; and those which are marked with a mixture of either white or 

 black are usually crossed with foreign blood. In other respects they 

 are thus described by an eminent breeder, 1 the accuracy of whose 

 judgment has been confirmed by many intelligent graziers : 



" A thin head, and clean jaw ; the horns pointing forward a little^ 

 and then turning upward, thin, tapering, and long ; the eye large and 

 full ; the throat clean, and no dewlap ; long and thin in the neck ; * 

 wide and deep in the shoulders ; no projection in the point of the 



1 Mr. Ellman of Glynde. See "Agricultural Survey of Sussex," p. 231. 



