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that abundance of flesli whicli smootlis off the roughnesses of the 
distinctive male character, and visitors did not always appreciate 
the unfurnished frames of bulls very unlike steers or oxen. 
" How is it, Mr. Booth," they would ask, " that your bulls are 
so very inferior to your cows ? " The veteran breeder, disdain- 
ing to dispute the inferiority, would quietly answer, " I cannot 
tell you, but they are the sires of my cows." 
Surely, if the Sussex breeders have not yet reduced their 
bulls to feminine fineness, nor shown them always in the con- 
dition of Smithfield steers, their cattle may rest their claims to 
favour as beef-makers upon the merits of the cows and heifers at 
the Royal and South-country Shows and the steers at Smithfield. 
The grand, massive character of the cows at Windsor, their wide- 
sprung ribs — a point of structure in which they have greatly 
improved of late years — their depth of girth, and, owing to 
increased roundness of rib, their now ample width through the 
heart, their deep, wide, and projecting breasts, their wide, 
strong, and thick-edged loins, and the wealth of good flesh upon 
their backs, with recently improved width across the chine 
(good " crops "), afforded weighty evidence of the competency 
of Sussex breeders to compete with the world in the production 
of beef-cattle, whilst the absence of grossness and the presence 
of style proved that they have advanced far beyond the stage of 
breeding in which size and substance, valuable in themselves, 
are unwisely allowed to put quality and symmetry out of sight. 
The shapely, sharply-cut head, bright, prominent eyes, and 
graceful fineness — not over-lightness — of the neck for a short 
space between the head and " neck-vein cushion," the " clean " 
bone of the legs (the term " clean " being understood to express 
that which is fine, as opposed to coarse, but not too slender), 
and the level moulding of the frame and superstructure are the 
"guinea stamp." They show the genuineness of the breeding. 
There is, I think, after the initial stages of improvement, this 
sort of evidence of artistic taste in nearly all the breeds of cattle 
that come from the hands of the cultured races of mankind — 
the Anglo-Saxon race, for example. Man begins to improve 
his cattle for utility, but he has a taste which is consciously or 
unconsciously brought into exercise, and impressed, as beauty, 
upon the breeds he developes. This characteristic of beauty has 
grown very much in the Sussex cattle of later years. 
Having thus generalised the features of the show of Sussex 
cattle at Windsor, we need not go into details of description, 
beyond brief reference to any distinguishing points of particular 
animals. Class 95, Bulls calved in 1883-4—5 or G, contained 
twelve entries, only one absent, and was headed in the Prize-list 
