192 Hie Agriculture of Glamorganshire. 
months. The breed shows its relationship to the Hereford by 
retaining the white face, but, excepting this distinctive feature, 
the animals may be described as nondescripts, with few good 
points about them. Their best feature is their hardihood ; but 
aptitude to fatten has been sacrificed to this. There is doubtless 
method in the madness of having ill-bred hardy animals for high 
situations, but it frequently appears to be overdone. A few 
fairly good cows may sometimes be seen, but a decided check 
to a better stock is given by " harking back " to a nondescript 
bull. It has often puzzled me to know where this animal is 
found. The calves are generally reared, and with the exception 
of a heifer or heifers retained to keep up the stock, they are 
sold as stores at two years old. The sale of cattle in spring 
meets the summer half-year's rent, whilst the draft from the 
sheep in the autumn meets that of the winter. 
The implements on the hill-farms are few in number, and 
primitive in form. The hay is carried to the rick on home- 
made cars without wheels, called in Welsh " Car Llusg ;" but in 
more favoured situations, where the acclivities are not so great, 
a modification of the harvest-cart of the corn districts is used. 
It is mounted on low wheels, and is called a gambo. It is 
a most useful article in high-lying districts. 
The horse of the hill-farms of the county may be described 
as a cob, or a hybrid by many crosses between the horse proper 
and the mountain pony. It is a most useful animal, with short 
legs, fitting it for climbing the hillsides. It is generally low, 
and somewhat thick in the shoulder, and plain in the hind- 
quarters. Even with these defects it is a hardy and enduring 
animal. The Welsh cob, so much in repute in the London 
market, is, however, very difficult to find. There are all the 
elements for breeding cobs, but it does not seem to be a paying 
pursuit, for after a few years' experience it is generally aban- 
doned. Several gentlemen amateurs prosecute horse-breeding 
more than the tenant-farmer. It would be well if more land- 
lords followed the example of Lord Tredegar in Monmouth- 
shire, who keeps three stud stallions at Tredegar Park, viz. 
a thoroughbred roadster, a Shire-bred cart-horse, and a Norfolk 
trotting cob, to all of which his tenants can send their mares 
for service free of charge. 
The farmers of the Glamorganshire hills have in a great 
measure escaped the wave of depression which has so much 
affected those engaged in arable farming in Great Britain 
during recent years. Though losses have been sustained by 
the death of stock of late, and though the price of wool has 
been low, good prices have been ruling for beef and mutton, 
and store stock has for several years been relatively higher than 
