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Report on (he Cattle 'Exhibited at Windsor. 
impossible, to touch salient points in the history of the Scotch 
Highland cattle. Youatt wrote, somewhere about half a century 
ago, that to the cattle of the Western islands " the honour of being, 
or at least of retaining the chai'acter of, the primitive breed is 
now generally yielded," and, still referring to the Hebrides, he 
added that from those islands " are procured the purest and the 
best specimens selected to preserve or to improve the Highland 
cattle in other districts." If the breed could tell its own history, 
it would be, we may presume, in effect, although no doubt 
in the Gaelic tongue, j'y svis, j'y reste. Long may that be its 
motto ! To destroy that ancient type, to lose or to pollute that 
source of pure and healthy blood, would be truly to waste that 
which we never could restore. 
The Royal Agricultural Society of England offered prizes for 
Scotch horned cattle at Windsor, in 1851, but Ayrshires won 
them. Four years later, at Carlisle, " Highland and other 
Horned Breeds " were separated from the Ayrshire cattle, and 
the prizes were awarded to a Poltalloch bull and cow, the heifer 
Class being empty. In the general competition of unspecified 
breeds at Chester, in 1858, Lady Pigot's West-Highland bull 
was at the head of his Class. The Battersea International Show 
of 1862 was, as regards Scotch breeds, the Highland Society's 
Show of the year, and, notwithstanding the distance from Scot- 
land, there was a really fine Class of old bulls, Mr. Malcolm's 
brindled " Duntroon," bred by the Marquis of Breadalbane, being 
a strikingly grand specimen of the Highland breed and type, 
of which the female form was as beautifully illustrated in the 
Marquis of Breadalbane's three-year-old heifer " Prosaig." The 
breed has been since represented in special Classes at New- 
castle, 1864, at the Kilburn International Show, 1879, and at 
Newcastle, 1887, but at none of those Shows were the entries 
numerous. 
The entries this year, in the two Classes at Windsor, seven 
bulls of any age, and eleven cows and heifers of any age, were 
fairly numerous considering the distance from home, and were 
of very good quality. The red and yellow colours greatly pre- 
vailed over the black, only three of the eighteen entries being 
black, and only one of those belonging to a Scotch exhibitor and 
from the herd of a known breeder ; nine were red, five yellow, 
and one was dun, all from well-known Scotch breeders. This 
looks as if the great charm (as in the Highland breed it is) of 
variety of colour is not to be lost in favour of a fashion for one 
colour. The Duke of Sutherland's red Newcastle First Prize cow 
was again at the head of her Class and took the Queen's Gold 
Medal, and a two-year-old bull from the same herd was first 
