Report on the Cattle Exhibited at Windsor. 
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Queen's Gold Medal — another score for " Ap Gwilym " as a sire. 
Mrs. Williams, of Llandilo, showed a beautiful Pembroke heifer, 
" Eirena " (First), in the Yearling Class, in which Mr. Oakeley's 
two heifers (Second and Third) reflect much credit upon 
" Harlech," and Mr. Dunlop's two upon " Duke of Chester," as 
their respective sires. 
Report of the Judges of Welsh Cattle. 
[Classes 103 to 108.] 
We are gratified to report great improvement in this stock. In Class 103, 
for Aged Bulls, are some noble animals combining size -with quality ; but we 
found the Champion Male in Class 104, No. 1512 (Col. Henry Piatt's Crom- 
well), a most promising two-year-old bull. The Yearlimj Bulls are com- 
mended as a Class. 
Many of the cowa in Class 106 are of great merit, especially the prize 
winners, the First Pbizbcow, No. 1534 (Mr. W. E. Oakeley's To/^s?/), being 
placed as Reserve Numbek for Her Majesty's Gold Medal for the best Welsh 
animal. 
Class 107 — Heifers calved in 1887 — furnished the winner of the Cham- 
pion Prize for best female, No. 1540 (Col. Henry Piatt's Yudno), also 
Her Majesty's Gold Medal for best animal in the Welsh Classes. All the 
heifers in this Class are honourably noticed. 
Class 108 — Yearling Heifers — are a nice lot without calling for special 
comment. 
w. b. robeets, 
John Williams. 
Eed Polled Cattle. 
Made one by interfusion and selection, and for upwards of 
thirty years recognised as one breed under the name of Norfolk 
and Suffolk Polled, for which the present name was substituted 
at the Society's Shrewsbury Show in 1884, the old dairy breeds 
of Suffolk and Norfolk, improved for the grazier, have assumed 
the distinct type with which visitors at the Society's Annual 
Shows are now familiar. It is a breed well adapted to dairy 
purposes and beef-making — and specially suited to a certain 
district, but that assuredly not the only district in the world 
for which it is a specially suitable breed. " Outsiders " cannot 
always prescribe the best rules for the " insiders " of a given 
district. At the Eoyal Shows the breeders of Red Polled cattle 
see them side by side with the cattle of various rival breeds ; 
they are shrewd men, and it is impossible to doubt that if 
they see any lingering defect they will do their best to breed 
it away, if they can be sure that in so doing they will not lose 
something of more importance than that which they would gain. 
Good dairy properties, good quality of flesh, and a ready tendency 
to fatten, in cattle of medium size, not too large for poorish 
pasture, and hardened to a coldish climate, are highly valuable 
