G30 Eeport on ilie Cattle Exhihiied at Windsor. 
(Sir W. Williams's FairmaiJ) wins tlie' Second Pkize, a very nice cow. 
No. 1360 (Mr. A. C. Skinner's Duchess 17th) Third Peizb,No. 1354 (Mr. 
John Howse's Dais;/) Resekve Number, and No. 1361 (Lord Falmouth's 
Winsome) Highly Commended, all good animals. 
Class 93 — Two-year-old Heifers — was a very useful lot. 
Class 94 — Yearling Heifers — was very strong in number and quality, 
which looks well for the future, as it contained many -very good animals 
indeed. 
Edwin F. Maunder. 
II. Simmons. 
Sussex Cattle. 
In the days when golden grain filled with gold the coffers 
of the English farmer, and teams of oxen were commonly- 
employed upon his arable land, the county of Sussex had a 
hardy old breed of cattle, second to none in constitutional 
stamina and untiring physical strength. The muscle, or lean 
flesh, was plentiful, and the oxen superannuated for draught 
purposes were fed up to great weights. As cereals became less 
profitable, beef a proportionately greater desideratum, and the 
horse and the steam-engine almost everywhere drove the ox from 
the plough, selection for a new main object wrought a gradual but 
marvellous change in the character of the cattle, and we have in 
the Sussex breed of to-day the recognised beef type, with greatly 
improved frame from a grazier's point of view, first-rate quality, 
early maturity, readiness to fatten, and an ample proportion of 
fat to lean in the fatted animal. The dairy properties, usually, 
are not great, not having been (except in a few instances) the 
object of special care ; but, as in the Hereford, experiment has 
proved that much — perhaps everything desired — may be done 
in that direction by patient attention to the development of 
those properties, we may reasonably assume that the Sussex 
breed would answer to similar treatment if their development 
were desirable. A beef breed, however, that can use its legs, 
take kindly to the coarsest pasture and bear climatic changes, 
as the Sussex can, should not be too lightly turned to a purpose 
which implies a change of constitution. A Sussex Herd-book, 
edited by Messrs. Heasman, was founded more than twenty- 
five years ago. The Sussex breed has in America an enthusi- 
astic friend in Mr. Overton Lea, whose successes as an exhibitor, 
both in the ring and under the block test, at the National 
Shows, have brought into notice the claim of the Sussex to 
rank with the leading breeds of heavy cattle. 
During the first twelve years of the existence of the Eoyal 
Agricultural Society of England — 1839 to 1850 inclusive — the 
Sussex cattle could compete only in the Classes open to all 
breeds excepting those which had special Classes from the first 
