Report on the Cattle Exhibited at Windsor. 
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Show, 1879, where their Classes were restored, and in that and 
each subsequent year they have ranked with the recognised 
breeds of the country. 
At Windsor, in 1851, the winners of all the five prizes 
offered for pure but unspecified breeds were Suffolk cattle. In 
1889, therefore, they returned to the field they won so many 
years ago, but no longer as a merely local or an unrecognised 
breed. They filled six Classes, with a total of seventy-two entries, 
distributed thus :— Bulls of 1883-4-5-6, fifteen ; bulls of 1887, 
seven ; yearling bulls, nineteen ; cows or three-year-old heifers, 
eight ; two-year-old heifers, thirteen ; and yearling heifers, ten. 
The first Class of bulls (109) contained the Champion male and 
winner of the Queen's Medal, Mr. H. P. Green's " Wild Roy," 
Mr. Alfred Taylor's " Bardolph " (Second), and Mr. Colman's 
" lago " (Third), taking the same places as at Nottingham last 
year. The Judges commended the whole Class. In the next 
class (1 10), Mr. A. Taylor's " Nimrod," Third last year, rose to 
the first place of honour ; last year's First, Lord Hastings's 
" Viceroy," having the Second Prize at Windsor. The bulls in 
the Yearling Class (111) are at the awkward age for exhibition, 
when many that are preparing to be the best do not look the 
best. In Class 112, Cows and Three-year- old Heifers, Mr. 
Tyssen-Amherst's " Emblem," Second last year at Nottingham, 
was promoted to the First place, and Mr. Colman's " Mid- 
summer Eose " and " Midget," last year both First winners 
in different Classes, were placed Second and Third. By study 
of the awards, the lines on which the Judges had gone 
might be traced. They had evidently, while attending to that 
which is technically termed " quality," taken an ideal type, 
and that rather a dairy type than a beef type, as their standard ; 
although, in a breed so highly praised for its dairy properties 
as the Red Polled breed, better dairy cows than many of 
those shown at Windsor might have been expected. Taking 
the general beef standard — that is to say, the ideal of struc- 
ture and muscular development and distribution, apart from 
the distinctive type of any particular breed — as our guide, 
we should have to admit that there was (generally, in the 
Red Polled Classes at Windsor) a deficiency^ — a depression — 
along the upper forward part of the side, from a little below 
the top of the shoulder, and immediately behind the shoulder- 
blade, backward towards the middle of the ribs. This was 
noticeable in the First Prize cow, a cow of more remarkable 
character than, for example, Mr. Taylor's " Coercion," standing 
next to her with a highly commendatory card over her head. A 
jury of butchers could have pointed to better " cuts," at more 
