244 WILD WHITE CATTLE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



the most wicked and savage one is castrated. Occa- 

 sionally neighbours' cows have been allowed to be 

 turned into the park to the wild bull, and the half-bred 

 produce feed and milk well. The wild steers have been 

 known to come up to ten score a quarter. The meat 

 is said to eat short, like vension — better than ordinary 

 beef — and the fat cools like the fat of venison. 



" On the whole, it would seem that these were a 

 breed of Long-horn cattle with almost Short-horn 

 shapes ; and if, as it is said, they have been kept pure 

 since the park was enclosed — more than six hundred 

 years ago — we are forced to arrive at the conclusion 

 that though other breeds of cattle may have been 

 brought to a state of earlier maturity, little or no im- 

 provement in conformation and symmetry has been 

 made in them." 



