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tional milking-marks) admits of no doubt : and although the 
youn£f stock are put on the poorest pastures and get sadly spoiled 
thereby, they retain the faculty of fattening at a great age. 
The " blood-red dairies " of Norfolk and Suffolk mustered nearly 
as strong as those of Sussex, and " presented several specimens of 
great merit, size, and symmetry, with good flesh and constitution 
and plenty of lean to the fat, — all qualifications for making as 
much good beef at the least possible cost from a given quantity 
of food as any breed in the yard." Another Judge says, "They 
were of great merit, and 1 observed in them great advances in 
the three very desirable acquirements of size, symmetry, and 
quality ; and in improving the two latter the former has not, as is 
too often the case, been sacrificed but rather increased. In both 
these classes I observed improvement in the young over the elder 
branches of their respective families, and these breeds have been 
under my inspection before." Careful crossing seems to have 
done much towards correcting their great tendency to be high 
on the tail. There is evidence of the existence of the breed in 
the Eastern Counties for upwards of a century and a half. It is 
thought that they derive their origin from the Poll Angus or 
Galloway (large quantities of which are still sent to graze in 
Norfolk and Suffolk) crossed with a red native breed. They are 
not styled " useful " unless they give their twenty quarts a day 
when in full milk ; and although feeding is not their forte, 
bullocks, if well done to, will weigh their 70 stone of 14 lbs. at 
three years old. From the favourable impression they created, it 
is hoped that perhaps in future they, as well as the Sussex, may 
have classes of their own. Lord Sondes and Sir Edward Kerrison 
each won first prizes, and Mr. Samuel Wolton another. 
Of the five classes assigned to North Wales four did not fill, 
and the two cows which came " had but little to recommend 
them." South Wales, or rather Mr. Clare Sewell Read of Nor- 
folk on its behalf, had a pair of cows among the nine in the 
classes, which " were, in length, size, and flesh, the best I ever 
saw." The Kerry entries were very short, and the judges con- 
sidered them " indifferent." Black is the orthodox colour, but 
some of the experienced breeders consider the deep red to be the 
best milkers. They fatten well in a short time when they have 
had some nine months to recover themselves after coming from 
the mountains of Kerry ; and their weight when fat may be 
estimated at from 3i to 5J cwt. Their cost when just taken off 
the mountain varies from 21. 10s. to 5/., and with good manage- 
ment few herds return a better profit from the pail. 
Of the Cattle from the Channel Islands, Colonel le Couteur thus 
writes : " Although they did not come in very great numbers, 
some very beautiful animals were shown. I was pleased to see 
