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pose for the market, and in November the dealers 

 will buy up late-calving heifers, and disperse them 

 over different farms, and 2s. 6d. in the pound is taken 

 off if they do not prove in-calf. 



The styles of the six men who hold the Eng. 

 lish trade are so well known that the experienced 

 breeder can tell, if he goes into the market, pretty 

 nearly what each will take. Cotterill of Worcester 

 goes in for little short-legged beauties, fawns and 

 flecked reds or "leopards,^^ with spots like half- 

 crowns all over them. Broad backs and coats " that 

 can^t be too smooth" and up -horns are also great 

 requirements in the " Here's one for CotterilW In 

 fact, he must have neatness and no self-colour like red 

 or black, but the shape of the vessel is no considera- 

 tion. 



If they^re only big enough, they^ll do for Ben- 

 nett from Cheshire, who likes large papped ones, with 

 a view to his dairy customers. Much of the import- 

 ance of the Dumfries market has depended upon him 

 for many years. Jackson of Lancaster buys the best 

 young heifers chiefly rongh in the coat and good 

 growers. Hodgson and Parkinson from Stafford- 

 shire also like them strong and useful, and the 

 latter especially buys the oldest and roughest for the 

 Potteries. Bough rumps, bad backs, and thick horns 

 are all the same to him, as there is no respect of age, 

 quality, or colour with the miners, as long as they 

 have a four-legged milk machine. These dealers 

 will sometimes take two to three hundred from 



