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Practical Agriculture. 
Eminent Pre-eminent among; Shorthorn breeders at the present tim 
breeders. are Mr. Thomas Christopher Booth of Warlaby, Colonel Gunterol 
Wetherbj, Captain Cheney, the Earl of Dunmore, the Rev. R. B. 
Kennard, the Marquis of Exeter, Ladv Pigot, Lord Fitzhardinge, 
Mr. John B. Booth of Killerbj, the Duke of Devonshire, Mr. G. 
Drewry, Mr. G. Fox, Lord Skelmersdale, Lord Penrhyn, Mr. J. W. 
Larking, Mr. Hugh Aylmer, Mr. S. E. Bolden, Mr. Allsopp, 
Mr. Ashburner, Mr. J. N. Blundell, the Earl of Bective, Mr. R. 
Loder, Mr. Graham, Colonel Kingscote, Mr. R, E. Oliver, Messrs. 
Cruickshank, Mr. E. Bowlv, Mr. D. Mcintosh, Mr. J. P. Foster, 
Mr. Slye, Mr. J. How, Mr. H. Salt, Mr. T. Lister, Mr. E. J. Cole- 
man, Mr. J. Robinson, Mr. Angerstein, Messrs. Dudding, ^Ir. 
J. Lynn, Mr. G. Garne, the Earl of Zetland, Mr. J. Outhwaite, 
Mr. T. H. Hutchinson, Mr. W. Linton, Mr. Richard Stratton, 
Mr. F. J. S. Foljambe, M.P., Sir Walter C. Trevelyan, Bart., 
the Rev. John Storer, Colonel Tovvneley, Mr. Oriel Viveash, 
Islr. Joseph Stratton, Lord Sudeley, Mr. B. St. John Ackers. 
Mr. W. Foster, Mr. James Bruce, the Duke of Northumberland, 
Mr. John Torr, M.P., Mr. Thomas Willis, the Earl of Fever- 
sham, Mr. C. Leney, Mr. W. A. Mitchell, Mr. T. H. Bland, 
Mr. T. H. Miller. But in naming these breeders from among 
many other owners of excellent Shorthorn herds, I make no 
attempt to arrange the list in any order of celebrity. 
In describing the points of the breed, I cannot do better than 
follow in the main the high authority of Mr. Henry Strafford, 
the ex-editor of ' Coates's Herd Book ' which has now been 
transferred to the Shorthorn Society. 
Mr. Strafiford's The bull's head is short, but, at the same time, fine, very broad 
description of across the eyes, but gradually tapering to the nose, the nostril ol 
a Shorthorn, ^yhich is full and prominent ; the nose itself is of a rich flesh- 
colour, neither too light nor dark ; eyes bright and placid, with 
ears somewhat large and thin. The head, crowned with a 
curved and rather flat horn, is well set on to a lengthy, broad, 
muscular neck ; the chest wide, deep, and projecting ; shoulders 
fine, oblique, and well-formed into the chine ; fore legs short, 
with the upper arm large and powerful ; barrel round, deep, and 
well-ribbed up towards the loins and hips, which should be 
wide and level ; back straight from the withers to the setting- 
on of the tail, but still short, that is, from the hip to the chine, 
the opinion of many good judges being that a beast should have 
a short back, with a long frame. As a consequence of this the 
hind-quarter itself must be lengthy, but well filled-in. The 
symmetry of frame of the Shorthorn is near perfection, while few 
animals handle so well, with so fine and mellow a touch. The 
hair is plentiful, soft, and mossy, with a hide not too thin, and 
in fact, somewhat approaching the feeling of velvet. Colour 
