Report on the Exhibition of Live Stock at Waricich. o2'J 
the straw-yard. Their ponderous forms, rapid growth, and early 
maturity are the guarantee both lor the economical conversion ol 
vegetable food into flesh, and for the manufacture of first-rate 
manure for succeeding crops. 
Let me try to describe a model specimen of the breed. He 
should have a symmetrical and compact form, of sufficient size, 
on shortish legs ; the body should be covered evenly with flesh, 
of a mellow and elastic nature, yet firm enough and springy to 
the touch, following the fingers when the pressure is witlidrawn ; 
the forehead should be open, without a contracted air about it, 
and tapering gracefully to the muzzle ; the eye prominent, yet 
placid ; neck moderately long, neatly running into the shoulders, 
which should be well laid, gracefully fitting into the fore- 
quarters ; the girth good over the heart ; the forearm, where it 
joins the body, broad and tapering, with fine bone below the 
knee, and fitting level into the girth, and so maintaining a straight 
line along the whole animal to the extremity of the hip ; the 
neck-vein should be prominent and well filled up with flesh, 
running neatly into tlic slioulder points, which should not be 
prominent {i. e. roughj, but well covered, tlie muscle on the out- 
side of the shoulder being well developed ; the ribs should 
spring well and level from the backbone, increasingly so towards 
the back-rib, which should be well home to the quarter, in fact 
the space here (termed the lalse rib) should carrv on in a straight 
line over the hip, gradually tapering to the side bones at the 
tail, but the quarter must be well packed, not " scooped out," so 
to speak ; the hip bones should be dovetailed into the quarter 
and false rib so completely, that one ought to be at a loss where 
to find them, ?'. e. tliey should not be too recognisable ; the flank 
will then, as I have already said, be deep and full, forming a 
jiarallel line with the animal's back from the bottom of the girth ; 
the back, again, from behind the top of the shoulder all along 
the vertebrae should be well covered ; the loins should be wide 
and thick ; the bone or ridge along the quarter should form a 
straight line in continuation with the back, and should also be 
well covered (which in a great many animals it very imperfectly 
is) to the same level ; the twist should be straight down (square), 
}noderately wide and deep, containing a great deal of heavy 
flesh, and the legs should be well under the animal ; there should 
be a thick coat of mossy hair, not sharp, or what is termed wiry. 
Altogether such an animal will have an ease and grace of motion 
as it walks which is only attained when tlie whole formation is 
in perfect harmon}'. There is invariably, too, a style and 
grandeur of appearance unmistakeably stamping the " high 
caste " sliort-horn. Many well-bred good animals will not feed 
level, but get patchy, which is fatal to them as show animals. 
