Report on the Cattle Exhibited at Windsor. 
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Hues of a brief historical sketch. "We have already seen how 
grand a breed it had become before the outbreak of rindei-pest. 
The Classes at Windsor this year illustrate the completeness of 
its restoration. 
Class 115, Bulls of 1883-4-5-6, contained twelve entries; 
Class 116, Bulls of 1887— five entries ; Class 117, Bulls of 1888 
— sixteen entries ; Class 118, Cows or Heifers calved before or in 
1886— twenty entries; Class 119, Heifers of 1887 — nineteen 
entries; Class 120, Heifers of 1888 — fourteen entries. These 
Classes gave a total of eighty-six entries. The general merit of 
the cattle was unquestionably of a very high order, and the 
lessons of the classes indicated the habit of gradual improvement 
up to maturity, and the prolonged youthfulness, of this breed. 
Of few other heavy breeds can it be said that the evenness of 
youth is preserved to advanced age, or that the old cows look so 
young as the Aberdeen- Angus cows. The back seldom " breaks 
up," in the best specimens, until they are past the age when most 
cattle have ceased to be. If some of these animals, as they 
advance in years, show a tendency to enlargement of paunch, like 
aged cattle of most breeds, when roots or other succulent food 
form any considerable part of their diet, the disfiguring effect is 
lessened by the almost cylindrical evenness along the top remain 
ing unbroken. 
The Guisachan herd (Lord Tweedmouth's) was represented 
in each Class except that of yearling heifers, and won honours in 
each. In the First Class of bulls, the First Prize, the Champion 
Prize for male animals, and the Queen's Gold Medal for the best 
of the breed, male or female, in any Class, were awarded to the 
large, massive, noble-looking bull, " Cash." Strikingly grand 
in his fore-quarters, with a straight top-line, thick-fleshed back 
and heavy thighs — good, indeed, from end to end, " Cash" 
is a bull to be remembered and mentioned in after years, 
although the breed which produced him can doubtless produce 
many more as good as he. The writer has a better opinion of 
the Aberdeen- Anguses than to suppose for one moment that Lord 
Tweedmouth's splendid bull, or any other single poll, dead or 
living, may be truly described as peerless. " Cash" is a son of 
" Moss Trooper," a remarkably impressive sire, whose sons, " Field 
Marshal of Guisachan" and " Free Lance of Guisachan," and 
daughters, " Pride of Guisachan 20th" and " Fame of Guisachan," 
shared with " Cash" the high opinion of the Judges. " Field 
Marshal," a full brother to " Cash," was first in the two-year-old 
Class. Both are from " Frailty," a daughter of " Judge," one of 
Mr. M'Combie's group of winners of the double championship at 
Paris in 1878. 
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