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tions, applying to the whole class, are to the credit of Mr. 
Farmer's " Sweet Briar, " a sort of yellow roan or streaky yellow 
and white, daughter of " May Flower," without father in the 
Catalogue entry, the Duke of Buckingham's " Governess," and 
Mr. Satchwell's " May Bud," a cow of the dairy type. 
Welsh Cattle, although classed together as one breed, have 
their distinct sub-varieties. Besides the " Castle-Martin " and 
other varieties of the black Welsh cattle, there is the smoky-faced 
red " Montgomery " breed, now nearly extinct,* but represented 
by two very fair specimens at Shrewsbury. The six Welsh Classes 
altogether numbered 60 entries : Older Bulls, 6, one absent ; 
Bulls of 1882, all shown, 6 entries ; Bulls of 1883, all shown, 
7 entries ; Cows, 14, one absent ; Younger Cows and Heifers, 7, 
two absent; Heifers of 1882, 13, one absent; and Heifers of 
last year, 9 entries, all shown. Mr. Oakley's " Sir Watkin," 
bred by the Earl of Cawdor, took the first prize in the first 
Class of Bulls, and being exceedingly well up in flesh-points, 
displays the capabilities of his breed in beef-making. Major 
Piatt's " Black Prince 2nd " filled the second place well, in a 
class which altogether did great credit to the breeders and 
exhibitors of the animals by the evidence it afforded of their suc- 
cessful efforts to make the best use of a good sort, which readily 
answers to the influences of keep and culture. In a strong Class 
of Bulls of 1882, Lord Harlech's "Zulu," first winner, Mr. 
Oakley's " Duke of Chester," bred by Captain Best, second, 
and the Earl of Cawdor's " Young King," reserved number, 
were all handsome, distinctively Welsh-looking and good in the 
details of form, flesh, skin and hair. Major Piatt's " Rhys," 
highly commended, a good bull all through, had a different 
type of head, which, if it could be coloured roan, and seen as 
Mr. Bates saw the Shorthorn " Belvedere's " head, without a view 
* About fifteen years a^o, when my attention happened to be turned to the 
cattle of the English and Welsh Border counties, I received much kind and 
valuable assistance from the late Mr. Humphry Salwey, of Tlie Cliff, Ludlow, 
whose intimate knowledge of those counties and his ancient family connection 
with the Ludlow district, placed him in possession of the best information upon the 
history, traditions, and resources of the surrounding country. Accompanying 
Mr. Salwey, I visited the only two herds of pui'e " ftlontgomeries " which he could 
ascertain to be in existence at that time. One has been since dispersed. The 
best cattle had more style and cliaracter than those exhibited tliis year at Shrews- 
bury ; but the latter have all the distinctive points of the breed, and are, I 
should suppose, pure-bred. The " IMontgomeries '' are butchers' favourites, and the 
butchers have got nearly all of them. The beef is of prime quality, the carcass 
much heavier than the appearance of the animal woidd indicate — ordinary stock 
being the standard. On one occasion the seller, usually an accurate judge of 
weight, could not agree with the butcher, within two score, as to the weight of a 
fat " Montgomery " he wished to sell, so he suggested that the scales should bo 
umpire. The butclier agreed, and the real weight proved to be within one 
pound of two score above the seller's, and four score above the butcher's esti- 
mate. — W. H. 
