742 Hornless Ruminants. 
_ being often mistaken for mutton.’ He then concludes by saying f 
‘The hornless goat is of Spanish origin.’ Now the county 
where hornless goats are most common is Malta, and the clos f 
proximity of that island to Spain would lead to the inferen 
that the Maltese is the’ kind here alluded to, especially as it 
not mentioned elsewhere in the work. If this be so, however 
the grouping is certainly at fault, seeing that the Maltese got 
has decidedly pendulous ears, and cannot, therefore, be placed it 
the same category as the prick-eared varieties.” (Pp. 18-21) 
He, on pp. 27, 28, describes “ The Maltese goat” thus: 
But all are unanimous in placing this variety foremost among 
milkers,—an important point to note. k 
On PP. 101-3, under the heading “ Importance of Pedig 
he pen an analysis of a pedigree which he says he selected" 
showing how, whilst most of the ancestors are hornless, 2 hor a 
goat is produced.” ; 
In a paper by the same author in Zhe Live-Stock Fourni 
Almanac (1887), in referring again to the importance of n 
ecord he says, — i 
i Sp perusal. of this volume clearly demonstrates also what | 
“iN often stated, that the hornless, short-haired goats arè 1 
_ the most popular, and pay the best to breed. . . . Of cours, 
popular, and very few 
in appearance, 
The British Dairymen’s Association, at their annual exhib! pes 
in London, has four classes 
of goats, 
Varo and Columella inform us that in their times the Roma? : 
for the reception of hornless vat" ” 
