230 Tlie Agricultural Features of the Paris Exhibition, 
young bull class with a Norman cross, indicating great improve- 
ment on the original Norman race. 
The Shorthorn-Dutch crosses were not quite so successful as one 
might have expected, looking to the similarity in the form of the 
two breeds. The Shorthorn influence has only effected slight 
improvement. Ten specimens were entered, but only one prize 
— a fifth — was theirs." That premium was awarded to M. 
Plaisant, of Beaurains-les-Arras, Pas-de-Calais, for a pepper- 
coloured heifer, thirty months old, of finer quality than the pure 
Dutch breed, but lacking style and symmetry. The other 
specimens were only fair. 
Ten specimens of the Shorthorn-Flemish cross were entered, 
but several failed to appear. These crosses showed improve- 
ment on the pure Flemish breed in regard to weight and wealth 
of carcass, and also in respect of quality ; but still it could hardly 
be said they were animals of a high class. They got only a fifth 
prize and two tickets of honourable mention. The former went 
to a red heifer, twenty months old, large in size, but bare of flesh, 
owned by M. Fetel-Longueval, of Loon, Nord. 
Two Shorthorn-Limousin crosses were shown, but no official 
honour could be spared to them. 
One cross between the Shorthorn and the Femeline was shown, 
but had to go home without any mark of distinction. A two- 
year-old Short]iorn-Bourgui(/non heifer, the property of M. 
Merle, of Chatol-Gerard, Yonne, was awarded an honourable 
mention. VVhite-and-black in colour, she was all over a fair 
animal, massive, yet likely to make a good milker. M. Abafour, 
of Mire, Maine-et-Loire, obtained a well-deserved supplementary 
prize for a three-year-old Shorthorn- Breton roan cow. She was 
a useful stamp of an animal ; there were, perhaps, not half-a- 
dozen better in the Section. She was short in the legs, thick, even, 
and splendidly covered with flesh of superior quality. From 
what we saw and learned of it we thought this cross preemi- 
nently successful. The Breton cattle are pretty little animals, 
and the infusion of Shorthorn blood increases the size wonderfully. 
A Shorthorn-Lorraine cow, exhibited by M. Lamy, had fair out- 
line and size if she had only had more flesh. More success was 
exhibited in a Shorthorn- Siviss cow, shown by M. Broquet, of 
Void, Meuse. This animal displayed great improvement upon 
the pure Swiss cattle, and was in some respects a curiosity. It is 
evident that the two breeds would blend well together, and that 
the Swiss would be greatly benefited by the English infusion. 
In the Section were shown a good many animals whose breeding 
was not specified beyond that they were Shorthorn crosses. Some 
were good, others only fair. 
Various Crosses. — In the Section for Croisements Divers, 47 
animals were entered. The variety (;f colour, form, and general 
