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me that, thirty-five years since, he saw the Hamilton 

 cattle, and that many of them wanted horns, and that 

 the oxen from that herd which were shown at the 

 Highland Society's meeting at Glasgow were polled. 



The following report upon the Hamilton herd is 

 hy Mr. H. Chandos-Pole-Gell, who visited it for me on 

 October 3rd, 1874:— 



" I went to Hamilton, and met there Mr. Lawrence 

 Drew, a well-known breeder of Ayrshire cattle and 

 Clydesdale horses, and formerly manager of the Home 

 Farm at Hamilton Place, nnder the late Duke of 

 Hamilton. We drove to Cadzow Park, about one and 

 a half miles from the town of Hamilton, a piece of the 

 old Caledonian Forest, and well timbered in parts with 

 fine old oaks of every form and size, and in various 

 stages of growth and decay. I counted there about 

 thirty animals, including one bull. They have very 

 straight backs, good under-line, generally fair hind 

 quarters, which are in good proportion to the fore 

 quarters. They appeared to have good hair, and all 

 had small turn-up horns. The land at Cadzow Park 

 is a strong clay, and grows moderately good grass. In 

 winter the cattle have a large open shed (lately built), 

 in which they eat the coarse hay provided for them. 

 No other animals are pastured in the park. In a field 

 near the park, and of the same description, I saw fifteen 

 bulls and steers, along with one old cow and a young 

 heifer. The old bull (i.e., the one in the park) was a 

 very fine beast, rather dun in colour, arising, in my 

 opinion, from his age. All the cattle have black hair 

 inside the ears, and the muzzle quite black. Their 

 heads are beautiful [Mr. Pole-Grell, in speaking to me 

 about them, said, " curiously beautiful." — J. S.] — a broad 



