336 THE BREED IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND. 



financially and practically the profit and loss from putting 

 into practice my faith in the polled cattle. 



A herd was established by the late Mr' Postlethwaite, 

 The Hollins, Cumberland, purchases having been made 

 from Mr M'Conibie of Tillyfour. On the death of Mr 

 Postlethwaite the herd was dispersed in 1878, when Mr 

 M'Combie bought several animals. At The Hollins sale 

 Mr Thomson of Moresdale Hall, Westmoreland, acquired 

 a few good polled cattle, and with some purchases made a 

 short time previously at Tillyfour he had the nucleus of a 

 herd, but we believe he has disposed of most of his stock. 

 Mr Loder, M.P., Whittlebury, Towcester, procured several 

 polled animals at the joint sale of the Earls of Strathmore 

 and Airlie at Glamis in 1880. 



Ireland. 



The breed has long been favourably known in Ireland. 

 Mr Watson, Keillor, used to include the Emerald Isle in 

 his show circuit, not only as a judge, but also as an exhibitor; 

 and it is partly from this circumstance that the great 

 agricultural societies of the country, the Eoyal Irish and 

 the Eoyal Dublin, have for many years offered prizes for 

 polled cattle. It was in Ireland that Mr Watson's cele- 

 brated bull Grey-breasted Jock 2 closed his career, having 

 been sold for 100 guineas, after his victory at Belfast in 

 1843, to Mr Kirkaldy of Hearnesbrook, Eyrecourt. It 

 sometimes happened at these early shows that Mr Watson 

 had to be content with minor prizes, having been occasion- 

 ally beaten with his own stock, or their descendants in 

 other hands. This was probably due to the fresh condition 

 in which the Irish breeders were able to present their 

 cattle compared with the jaded appearance of the Keillor 

 animals after their trip across the channel. At the Eoyal 

 Irish show at Belfast in 1843, when Grey-breasted Jock 2 

 was first in the class of aged bulls, Mr Thomas Seymour of 



