40 THE COMPLETE GRAZIER. BOOK i. 



country Shows and the steers at Smithfield. The grand, massive 

 character of the cows at Windsor, their wide-sprung ribs a point 

 of structure in which they have greatly improved of late years 

 their depth of girth, and, owing to increased roundness of rib, their 

 now ample width through the heart, their deep, wide, and projecting 

 breasts, their wide, strong, and thick-edged loins, and the wealth of 

 good flesh upon their backs, with recently improved width across the 

 chine (good ' crops '), afforded weighty evidence of the competency of 

 Sussex breeders to compete with the world in the production of beef- 

 cattle, whilst the absence of grossness and the presence of style proved 

 that they have advanced far beyond the stage of breeding in which 

 size and substance, valuable in themselves, are unwisely allowed to 



Fig. 8. Sussex Cow, "Elsa" (3214). 



Winner of the Champion Prize given by the Sussex Herd Book Society for the best female 

 in the Sussex classes, and of the Gold Medal presented by Her Mnjesty the Queen for the best 

 animal in the Sussex classes, at the Jubilee Show of the Royal Agricultural Society of 

 England, Windsor, 1889. Bred and exhibited by Mr. W. B. Waterlow, of High Trees, 

 Redhill, Surrey. 



put quality and symmetry out of sight. The shapely, sharply-cut 

 head, bright, prominent eyes, and graceful fineness not over-lightness 

 of the neck for a short space between the head and ' neck- vein 

 cushion,' the ' clean ' bone of the legs (the term ' clean ' being under- 

 stood to express that which is fine, as opposed to coarse, but not too 

 slender), and the level moulding of the frame and superstructure are 

 the ' guinea stamp.' They show the genuineness of the breeding". 

 There is, I think, after the initial stages of improvement, this sort of 

 evidence of artistic taste in nearly all the breeds of cattle that come 

 from the hands of the cultured races of mankind the Anglo-Saxon 

 race, for example. Man begins to improve his cattle for utility, but 

 he has a taste which is consciously or unconsciously brought into 

 exercise, and impressed, as beauty, upon the ' breeds he develops. 



