Beport on the Cattle Exhibited at Windsor. 
641 
Eeport of the Judge of Longhorn Cattle. 
[Classes 101 and 102.] 
The Longhorus exhibited were few in number, but most of tlaem possessed 
the best characteristics of this fine old breed. 
J. H. BUEBERY, 
Welsh Cattle. 
Hitherto separate breeds have engaged our attention ; two 
of them, indeed, the Shorthorn and the Devon, breeds with 
strongly marked variations of type, or sub-types, yet each 
not more than one breed. The classification in this section is 
less definite, and leaves room for the admission of different 
breeds. " Welsh cattle " is a term which covers not only the 
kindred although differing types of Anglesea and Pembroke- 
shire, but also those of Montgomeryshire and Glamorganshire ; 
all, in fact, whether unaltered types of the cattle of the abo- 
riginal Britons, or divergent types obtained by selection or by 
cross-breeding. Some discussion occurred five years ago when 
a couple of smoky-faced Montgomeries appeared among the 
black Welsh cattle at Shrewsbury. Admirers of the black 
cattle looked upon the red as interlopers ; admirers of the red 
thought them unfairly handicapped in competing with the 
black, popularly recognised as the cattle of the Principality. 
Still, a very little effort of memory would have served to allay 
any feeling of dissatisfaction on that ground, because at Cardiff, 
in 1872, two out of the three Prizes in the Yearling Bull Class 
of mixed Welsh breeds were awarded to red Montgomery bulls. 
A Herd-book for the registry of the cattle of South Wales 
is now the property of a society formed to promote the improve- 
ment of the breed and maintain its purity, and to carry on the 
Herd-book, as established by the late Mr. Richard Hart Harvey, 
of Slade Hall, Haverfordwest. The first volume, compiled and 
edited by Mr. James Bevan Bowen, of Llwyngwair, was pub- 
lished in 1874. Two volumes, edited by Mr. Harvey, were 
issued respectively in 1878 and 1883, and the fourth volume, 
edited by Mr. James Thomas, of Haverfordwest, the secretary of 
the Society, was published in 1888. In 1883 the North Wales 
Black Cattle Society brought out the first volume of their Herd- 
book, under the editorship of the late Mr. William Dew. On 
his death his office devolved upon Mr. W. A. Dew, by whom 
the work is ably continued. Authoritative descriptions of the 
respective breeds are given in the two Herd-books. 
At the Society's Shows, for twelve years from the beginning, 
Welsh cattle had access only to the Classes for " Other Breeds," 
whilst the Shorthorns, Herefords, and Devons, at all those 
