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Practical Agriculture. 
man on Sussex 
cattle. 
fat-stock shows, as well as at the Rojal and other breedin 
stock shows, the Devons always appear with superb classe 
and some specimens have won the champion plates of t 
Smithfield Club in competition with the more massive Sho 
horns and Herefords. 
BreeJers. The herds which have attained the greatest celebritry of I; 
years are those of Mr. James Quartly, Mr. Walter Farthing 
Stowey Court, Bridgewater, the late Mr. James Davy (succeed 
by Mrs. Langdon) of Flitton Barton, Viscount Falmouth, ^ 
John Azariah Smith of Bradford Peverell, Mr. William Smith 
Whimple, Sir Alexander Hood, Mr. George Turner, Mr. Thon 
Pope, and Her Majesty the Queen. 
South Hams The South Hams Cattle, grazing in the district of that na 
cattle. on the South coast of Devonshire, are a red breed, supposed 
have originally sprung from the North Devons, but are of lar{ 
frame and coarser build. They are good graziers' beasts, and he 
been materially improved during the last twenty years by select! 
and better management. 
Mr. A. Hea&- Sussex Cattle.- — -This breed, of a deep red colour, is becomi 
more closely assimilated in character to the Devon. Mr. 
Heasman, one of the most eminent breeders and exhibitors, sa 
" This useful class of stock was formerly bred principally 
draught purposes, being converted into food for the public al • 
they had cultivated the soil of the Weald of Sussex and Ken • 
some of the heaviest tilled land in the kingdom — and at tir ; 
being required to start the heavy carriage of the county mem • 
from the same muddy district, when it was necessary for hiro > 
attend to his parliamentary duties, before locomotive por 
came into operation or the Highway Act had been amend . 
Even in those early days the Sussex cattle were fully apprecial , 
and, always possessing the finest quality of flesh, were nc r 
neglected by the grazier. 
" When they had been worked for several years, and ag( t 
last rendered it necessary that they should be drafted from ; 
team, the farmers of the western part of the county would pa i 
visit to their brothers in the cast ; attend the fairs held at Bat , 
Lewes, or on the borders of Kent, in order to buy up the a; I 
oxen ; and, after grazing them a year, supply the markets w i 
animals weighing from one hundred and eighty to two hund 1 
stone. 
" Times have very much altered, and the Sussex beasts are i 
longer what they were, neither are they reared to the sre 
extent or for the same purpose. They have given place to h( e 
and steam power, and now take up their position as one of e 
useful and established breeds of the kingdom to meet the press g 
and increasing demand for beef. Their colour was formerly b h 
