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that, as a lot, they were good beef cattle, but the display had at 
least the merit of presenting abundance of variety. It included 
four different breeds and two distinct crosses. The sjiecimens 
of the Val di Chiana breed and the crosses from the same sort 
were indeed wonderful animals. They were light grey or blue 
in colour, of immense size, and very rough in bone and form, 
bare of flesh, low on back, and high on shoulder-top and rump. 
The Val di Chiana-Romagnole bull, shown by M. Lundi, had 
about as many visitors as any other animal in the Exhibition, 
for he could claim the distinction of being both the tallest and 
the Uffliest animal within the enclosure. He measured close on 
6 feet in height at the shoulder, and in general form might have 
passed, we should think, as the prototype of the ancient cattle 
of labour, which Palladius says v.ere " tall, with huge members, 
of stern countenance, small horns, brawny and vast neck, and 
confined belly." M. Bertani's bull was very nearly as tall, 
measuring 5 feet 7 inches at the shoulder-top — a giant height 
for a two-year-old ! Though entered as twenty-four months old, 
examination proved that he had passed that age at which the 
mouth ceases to be a safe indication ; indeed, in general appear- 
ance he was quite a patriarch. He girthed 7 feet 3J inches, 
measured 6 feet from the shoulder-top backwards, and 2 feet 
8 inches from the fore flank to the ground. 
Two or three specimens of the Pugliese breed were also tall, 
gray in colour, big in bone, with thick plain quarters, light 
waist, heavy dewlap, long limbs, and were seemingly better 
suited for work than for producing either beef or milk. 
A bull and a cow of the Romognole breed were blue in 
colour, and could not claim beautiful form, but displayed better 
quality than some of the other breeds in the Section. The bull, 
entered as two years old, was sharp and slack on the back, 
very high on the shoulder-top, had great development of dew- 
lap, long horns and black muzzle. The cow, three years old, 
was of finer quality, with a neat head, turned-up horns, black 
muzzle, flat rib, deficient quarters, and light flesh. 
Four or five animals of the Reggiana sort were shown by 
the Agricultural Society of Reggio-Emilia. It could hardly be 
said that their admirers were numerous. Bright dun in colour, 
they presented characteristics very similar and marked. Large in 
size, they had long, but not very even quarters, white muzzles, 
and thick massive bone, and were, on the whole, of rough build: 
The females handled better than one would have expected from 
the first glance ; but their general appearance was masculine 
and clumsy. Lovers of " ox-tail soup " must have looked at 
them with some interest, for they were most liberally provided 
with the development which supplies that savoury nutriment. 
