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_ Having already quoted from Froude, I may be allowed to 
_ make another extract, as evidence of the reputation of Yorkshire 
_ for breeding fine cattle having existed from a very early date. 
The following is quoted in his History, vol. v. p. 45, from a 
_ Manuscript instruction to the English general commanding an 
= &xpedition into Scotland. After saying that biscuit, wine, and 
_ horse provender were to be lodged at Berwick, the order goes on 
_ that two hundred and sixty-two carts were to be requisitioned; 
_ and adds, “which may well be purveyed in York, where the 
_ great oxen be, and the best wains.” 
From a highly interesting table of the results of trials con- 
_ ducted between the years 1833 and 1865, by the king of Wiir- 
_ temberg, as to the milking propensities of various breeds, the 
- polled Yorkshire is included along with the Friesian, Swiss, 
_ Durham, and polled Norfolk, and is described as “ Reddish brown 
_ 4nd white.” From this table, published 1883, it now appears 
that the polled Yorkshire was a recognized breed for the dairy. 
e Devon Natts.—Associated with the Devon breed there are 
_ the Devonshire natts. Young, in his last tour, noticed them in 
- the neighborhood of Barnstaple. Lawrence describes them as 
middle-sized, thick-set, and apt to make fat. 
= Youatt says of them,—describing them along with the West 
: Somerset sheeted cattle,— 
: be seen, but they are the same party-colored kind of which I 
: have just spoken.” ° 
a The Meaning of the word xatt, or nott, will be given in the 
, P er on Philology, which will be found of considerable 
entific value in tracing the origin of these polled breeds. 
tte Polled Somersets—Professor Low, in his “ Illustrations of - 
tish Domesticated Animals,” published in 1842, gives an illus- 
Hon of “ The Sheeted Breed of Somersetshire,” which shows,— 
= Cow, of the polled variety, the property of John Weir, Esq; _ 
_ St Carnell, Somersetshire. oe 
ag, One of the horned variety, four years old, from the stoc 
the late Sir John Philips, Montacute House, — 
1 In National Live Stock Journal. 
