Report OIL the Cattle Uxloibited at [Vindtsor. 601 
Agricoltura, the Italian official organ, of which a translation 
has been published by the Board of Agriculture. This asser- 
tion appears to be based on the fact that the owner of a hackney 
stallion who refused to take " one penny less " than 1,000^. for 
him in 1887, accepted 4001. in the following year ; while the 
owner of another took 500L after declaring that he would not 
sell at any price. The Italian Commissioners, however, were less 
successful when they came to buy thoroughbred sires, and, after 
setting their hearts upon " Huguenot " and " Khamseen," they 
were obliged to return without those horses, as the prices, 
700Z. and 1,000/. respectively, were in excess of what they were 
authorised to expend. The young hunting stock at Windsor 
showed what judgment and liberality could effect ; Avliile in the 
heavy Classes the show was most satisfactory ; and the lover of 
horses has probably never seen a better collection of all breeds. 
XXX. — Report on the Cattle ExJiibited at the Windsor Show, 
1889. By William Housman. 
I\ the following report upon the cattle exhibited in AVindsor 
Great Park, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversaiy of the 
Koyal Agricultural Society of England, the reader will observe 
a departure from the customary plan of reporting for the 
Society's Journal. Before the usual descriptive notice of the 
Classes of each breed, a few historical facts relative to the breed 
and its first recognition in the Prize Lists of the Society are 
introduced, as likely to be useful for future reference. 
From the beginning the Shorthorn, Hereford, and Devon 
breeds have been recognised as " national," and have never failed 
to appear, in the same order as here observed, at any one of the 
forty-nine Shows to which cattle were admitted. All other 
breeds were at first regarded as " local," and invited to compete 
in separate Classes only at those Shows which touched or nearly 
approached their homes ; but there were still open to them at 
the farther distant Shows the Classes for " any other breed," and 
the old Longhorn, the Sussex, the Black Polled, the Red 
Polled, the Channel Islands, and other distinct breeds of cattle, 
at Shows where no classes were allotted to any of them ex- 
clusively, have often made a very creditable, if miscellaneous, 
appearance. 
One of the most remarkable instances of the rapid extension 
of a breed of cattle, long known before its general acceptance, 
is found in the rise of the Jersey breed, as illustrated by the 
