550 = 254 
Practical Agriculture. 
to improve the breed by crossing have not been attended by 
success, though the Devons amalgamated best. 
Anglesea Again following Mr. Morgan Evans, the Anglesea cattle 
breed. very like the Pembrokes. The coat, as with the Castle- 
martins, should be long and wavy. This generally denotes 
good quality, and a growing beast easily fattened. In colour 
they are generally darker than those of South Wales, being a 
pure black. A little more white is allowed than in the Pem- 
brokes, the scrotum of the bulls and the udders of the cows 
being very frequently white. A white streak is sometimes found 
along the chine, but this feature cannot be commended. The 
horns, which may be broadly described as white with black tips, 
curving gracefully upwards in cows and oxen, are usually much 
darker-coloured than in the Pembrokes, and the white portion 
is not so mellow and creamy in appearance. They are perhaps 
a little larger than the Castlemartins — standing on short strong 
legs ; but are not so good in the head or shoulder. The head 
of the ox is very frequently heavy and bull-like. Davies in his 
time attributed the "bull-like features in the head and dewlap" 
of the Anglesea ox to the fact that the calves were not weaned 
in Anglesea until " double the time at which they are weaned 
in other counties," together with their not being " gelt until 
they be about a year old ;" but this will hardly account for the 
persistency of this feature in stock not thus treated. The 
shoulder is often coarse, and falls in behind the bladebone. In 
short, comparing them once more with their rivals, they are 
altogether coarser in the fore part than the Pembrokes, but have 
better hind-quarters — wider, with bigger thighs and broader 
loins. The Welsh " runts " as they are called, are not equal to 
many other breeds for dairj- purposes. 
The Anglesea cattle are now cultivated to equal perfection in 
Carnarvonshire and some parts of the adjoining counties as in 
the " mother " isle ; and diminutives of this breed are the prin- 
cipal stock of the mountainous districts of Carnarvon and 
Merioneth. But they cannot be improved by crossing with 
English breeds. They will not blend with foreign blood ; the 
colour becomes destroyed and the type broken, and the produce 
cannot be reduced to a uniform standard. 
Of the distinctive Glamorgan breed of cattle only a few 
herds remain. 
Scotch Breeds. — My department of this Memoir does not em- 
brace any outline of Scottish husbandry ; but, as many bullocks 
from beyond the border are grazed, and Scottish cows kept for 
dairying in English counties, I must allude to the characteristics 
of the principal breeds in that division of the United Kingdom. 
West Highland In the Highlands of Scotland, and in the Hebrides, the 
cattle. Kyloes or West Highland cattle prevail. They are so fitted foi 
