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would have been a matter of regret to all who feel a just pride in the 

 splendid list of distinct races of cattle possessed by Great Britain, every 

 one of which has its peculiar uses and adaptability to its own environ- 

 ment. In 1906 a Longhorn steer three years old was exhibited at 

 Northampton market, which weighed 19f cwt., and dressed 173 stones 

 of 8 Ib. Many admirable specimens of the breed have been seen 

 at shows in recent years. The Longhorns are capital butchers' 

 beasts. 



Photo by 0. H. Panoru. 



Fig. 9. Longhorn Bull, " Fradley Conqueror." 



First in the Younger Bull Class at the Royal Agricultural Society's 



Show at Lincoln, 1907. 

 The property of Mr. W. L. Riley, Foleshill Hall, Coventry. 



Mr. Housman says of the Longhorn: Although an area com- 

 prising the Craven district of Yorkshire, the southern border of West- 

 moreland, and that part of North Lancashire which strikes its 

 wedge-end in between Westmoreland on the north-west and Yorkshire 

 on the north-east, was the northern stronghold, if not the fountain- 

 head, of the original breed, Bakewell concentrated the strength of the 

 Longhorn in the Midlands, and a Midland breed it remains to this 

 day, while its old homes in the North have been long occupied by the 

 supplanting Shorthorn, only tradition, a few old portraits, and the 

 boyish recollections of some of the very oldest inhabitants, recalling 

 the glories of the Longhorn. 



" The grand old Longhorn, Bakewell's breed," adds the same well- 

 informed writer, " must ever hold the first place in chronological history 

 of the scientific and systematic improvement of British cattle, and long 

 inay the type be preserved in its true grandeur and picturesque 

 beauty. The iron constitution, the ample lean flesh, and the abundant 



