1078 Horniless Ruminants. ‘(Bee 
critic has remarked, “ hardly correct, as a matter of fact, and is 
peculiar, to say the least,” to-day. But if there had been a few 
more Marshalls among the breeders of Britain, it would, I believe, 
have been very true now. 
Marshall, the celebrated authority, thus wrote (1780): 
“There are already in this island three or four distinct breeds 
of hornless cattle; or rather, breeds of cattle many individuals of 
which are hornless. . . . These breeds are the old short-horned 
breed of Yorkshire; the Suffolk breed; a breed in Nottingham- 
shire propagated chiefly by the late Sir Charles Sedley, 
ably a variety of the Yorkshire breed [or of the White Park 
breed,—a herd of which is in this county]; and the breeds of 
Scotland, all of which, I believe, produce occasionally hornless 
individuals. y 
“ The Galloways send out a breed almost wholly without horns, 
and some of them of good quality. Some of the Galloway 
are not deficient in flesh. That of Nottingham has not come 
sufficiently under my notice to speak of its quality. For strong 
e 
provement. That of the Suffolk breed is well known to, 
good quality. For lighter lands there may be superior indivi 
of the Suffolk breed in their present state sufficiently perfect of 
a basis at least. This breed has lately been used as beasts 
draft in Norfolk with singularly good effect. nes 
“T have digested my ideas, and I am clearly of piman 
. a breed of cattle answering nearly, if not exactly, the 
going description will, in the nature of human affairs, 
prevalent, if not common, to the Kingdom.” 
A prophecy that is likely eventually to become true, not only 
in Britain but in America. ording 
Youatt divided the breeds.of cattle of Great Britain, a¢ the 
_to the comparative size of the horns, into five classes : @) i 
long-horns, of the midland counties; (2) the skorka 
northern counties; (3) the middle-horns, of Devon, Suss% ira 
ford, etc. ; (4) the crumpled-horns, of Alderney and the ; 
coasts; (5) the horniess, or polled, of England and pare 
Polled Cattle among the Horned Breeds —Any one must = i 
observed that what Martin says is true, — ; a 
_ “Besides the polled ‘cattle we have here noticed, oy ad rack 
titute of horns occur which confessedly belong to 4 th 
[He then 
. and must not be considered as distinct. 
