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I Mr. James Robertson, La Mancha, Malajiide, county Dublin, 
his three sons, and Mrs. Robertson, were the only exhibitors. 
They showed in all about a dozen of these neat little animals, 
and as specimens of the Kerry breed they would not have been 
easily beaten. The first-prize bull, in particular, was a very fine 
specimen of the breed — neat, even, and proportionate. This 
breed of cattle is perhaps not quite so well known as most of 
the other British breeds referred to in this Report, and therefore 
a few sentences on its general characteristics may be of interest. 
By Youatt the Kerry is regarded as an aboriginal Irish breed, 
and the cow is spoken of as " truly a poor man's cow, living 
everywhere, hardy, yielding, for her size, an abundance of milk 
of good quality, and fattening rapidly when required." A good 
specimen of the breed may be described as a small, neat, lively 
animal, with light round frame, narrow rumps, fine bone, rather 
long limbs, fine small head, keen eye, and white upstanding 
horns with black tips. The prevailing colour is jet-black, but 
some are red and some brindled. The beef of the Kerry is of 
the finest quality, and for their size they carry a fair quantity of 
it. A well-fed, fully grown Kerry steer will weigh about 4 cwt., 
dead weight. Twelve quarts of milk are reckoned as the daily 
average yield for a Kerry cow during the season, and from 
6 to 7 lbs. as the weekly yield of butter. Cows have been known 
to give as much as sixteen quarts of milk daily for some time 
after calving:. The breed is one of the hardiest existing: in the 
British Isles, and we were informed that some of the specimens 
exhibited at Paris had hardly ever before been under a roof. 
For many years this breed was greatly neglected by the Irish 
farmers, which led to a slight deterioration in its " rank and 
file." Recently more attention has been bestowed upon it, and 
some improvement has already been effected. Prominent among 
the improvers is Mr. Robertson. A famous Show bull of the 
Kerry breed ("Busaco") belonging to this gentleman, when 
exhibited as a two-year-old, measured 34 inches from the shoul- 
der-top to the ground, and 38 inches from the shoulder-top to 
the tail-head, and girthed behind the shoulders 4 feet 2 inches. 
I Dutch Cattle. 
In the Foreign Division there were 59 entries of this valuable 
race of cattle, 42 of which came direct from Holland, 9 from 
France, and 8 from Belgium. Throughout Great Britain the 
Dutch breed is one of the best and most favourably known of all 
the Continental breeds, and that it deserves the distinction we 
have little hesitation in affirming. For many years it was im- 
ported in large numbers ; and while it proved itself a fair sort 
