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Report on the Farming of the 
Holland and the north-western parts of Germany. Their colour 
is described as beinj generally red and white, or black and white, 
and in some cases mouse or dun colour on a clear white ground. 
The great amelioration, however, which began to take place about 
forty years ago in the class of short-horned cattle on the banks of 
the Tees, has now extended itself into the East Riding. Bulls and 
cows of a finer description, of the stocks of the accredited northern 
breeders, have found their way hither, and have caused the old 
Holderness sort to disappear. 
It may, perhaps, have been remarked, that the cattle of this 
Riding, especially of Holderness, are of a large frame, and possess 
propensities to milk rather than fatten. It is to be doubted, how- 
ever, whether this has not proceeded from the taste of the stock- 
owners, rather than that any remnant of the old stock still exists. 
No part of the East Riding can be called, as it was in 1812, 
" an entirely breeding and grazing country." In Holderness two- 
thirds are probably under the plough. The Vale of York pos- 
sessses very little land with grazing qualities. The Wolds, as 
must be known to all who are conversant with chalky tracts, are 
more adapted for sheep than cattle. Consequently it is found that 
few farmers keep a larger dairy than is sufficient for the wants of 
their family. Mr. Watson, of Waudby, near South Cave, is an ex- 
ception to this : he possesses a herd of from 50 to 60 short- horned 
cows, and the prices he is in the habit of obtaining for his yearling 
bulls, &c., prove the esteem in which his stock is held. 
The propriety of economizing the straw of a farm, and of con- 
verting it into good manure, has been alluded to, and the defect 
observable in this particular in Wold farms has been pointed out. 
This defect, however, is not confined to the Wolds. The manage- 
ment of straw-fold cattle throughout the Riding is capable of great 
improvement. If a small allowance of turnips, or of oil-cake, or 
of the linseed compounds so much in vogue now-a-days, were given 
in addition to the straw, a very important benefit would be con- 
ferred, not only upon the fertility of the individual farm, but also 
upon the resources of the whole community. 
Horses. — This part of Yorkshire has long been celebrated for 
its breed of horses, and this celebrity in some measure continues. 
The Yorkshire bays are still in request for London carriage-horses, 
and most of these are bred in parts of Holderness, in the neigh- 
bourhood of Burlington, &c. 
Formerly a large, powerful, bony animal was required for car- 
riage purposes : the fashion of the present day has, however, 
changed in this particular; and now it is necessary that the Lon- 
don carriage-horse should be three parts, at least, thorough-bred. 
Consequently, all traces of the original pure coaching breed, or 
