518 Farming of the North Riding of Yorkshire. 
Linton, of Sheriff Hutton, Colonel Croft, of Stillington, and many 
of the superior farmers set a noble example of thorough-draining, 
high cultivation, large and weedless crops, and great numbers of 
excellent sheep, their farming verging on the well-understood 
and well -acknowledged system of "crop green and crop grey." 
Stock. 
Cattle. — The "Yorkshire cow," so celebrated, and more prized 
when milking and dairy qualities were more esteemed and more 
admired than early maturity or disposition to feed, is losing caste. 
As the dairies and grass began to disappear, the distinctive 
breed has given way, and the celebrated breed of the banks of the 
Tees, the short horns, are spreading with more or less purity, and 
a greater or lesser degree of alloy — spread by the excellent land- 
lords, who, patronizing breeding themselves by purchasing the 
stock of the first and most judicious breeders, have allowed their 
tenants the free use of these superior animals ; and hence the 
short-horns have spread so far that it is no unusual thing to find 
animals of twelve to eighteen months old sold fat to the butcher. 
To enumerate the breeders of the North Riding were therefore 
to name the greater part of the landed gentry and aristocracy ; 
but even the professional breeders are numerous, and stand so 
high that it were invidious to name them except alphabetically. 
The most distinguished are Mr. Bates, of Kirklevington ; Mr. 
Beetham, of Harlsey; Mr. J. Booth, of Killerby ; Mr. R. 
Booth, of Warlaby ; Mr. J. M. Hopper, of Newham ; Mr. W. 
Linton, of Sheriff Hutton; Mr. Maynard, of Harlsey; Mr. S. 
Wiley, of Bransby, &c., &c. ; and there are not perhaps in the 
three kingdoms parties who can equal them in the same area for 
purity, quality, symmetry, and all the characteristics of short- 
horns. 
Horses. — The Cleveland, as a pure breed, is losing something 
of its distinctiveness. It is running into a proverb that a Cleve- 
land horse is too stiff for a hunter and too light for a coacher, 
but there are still remnants of the breed, though less carefully 
kept distinctive than may be wished by advocates of purity. Slill 
the contour of the farm horses of Cleveland has the lightness and 
hardiness and steadiness of the breed in outline ; and it is sin- 
gular that while the lighter soils have horses more calculated for 
drays, the strong-land farmer has the compact and smaller, but 
comparatively more powerful animal. 
Sheep. — Few better specimens of excellent sheep exist than in 
this Riding. The long-wooUcd, or improved Leicester, are the 
general favourites, and bone, wool, and mutton seem to be rather 
the desiderata than mutton alone. The favourite sheep on the 
turnip-soils is that which weighs when fat some 28 to 30 lbs. 
