Rise and Progress of Ilcraford Calllc. 
!I3aker Street. Their fine, placid tempers arc a very groat point, 
as they not only feed better, but will bear packing closer in the 
strawyard, where the West Highlanders' horn is never in rest. 
This remark does not applv nien>ly to bullocks, as we have seen 
at Cronkhill three 2-year-()ld bulls enjoying a happy fellowship 
in one box. In the yoke tliey combine the activity of the Devon 
and the strength of the Durham. They are very little used in 
their own county, but the Wiltshire men sometimes buy them at 
Hereford Fair, and, after ploughing with them for a year or two 
in teams of four or six on the downs, pass them on to the Bucks 
graziers. We have met with eight of them in the drag-harrows 
on a Sussex farm, whose tenant found them quite equal in powers 
of draught to the county reds, and answering with as much do- 
cility to the " Duke ! " and " Diamond ! " " Love ! " and " Lovely ! " 
— exhortations and mysterious pricks of the goad, with which the 
driver-boys guide their steps. Those who have tried all three 
sorts assure us that they have not the pace of the Devon, but that 
they go quite as fast as the Shorthorn. The late Mr. Forbes, of 
Echt in the north of Scotland, used them in teams of six to 
trench-ploughs, which turned up whin, heather, and stones to the 
<lepth of nearly 14 inches. Despite the immense strain upon 
them, they never broke step, Avhereas horses, if such a task had 
been set them, would most probably have snapped every trace. 
They are remarkably easy to break to the collar, but if there is a 
Tecusant among them, he is pretty certain to be a mottle-face. 
The great majority of the calves are dropped in April, May, 
June, and July ; but the breeders, where they are not tied down 
by the Royal Agricultural Show date of July 1st, prefer their 
cows calving before the hot weather sets in. Yearling heifers 
are very seldom put to the bull. Nearly all the calves are 
suckled for six months, and run with their dams, unless they 
come at the commencement of winter, and they are very rarely 
weaned on oilcake. The young steers are fed upon grass and get 
turnips and cut straw, and sometimes a little cake in the winter. 
No pastures send them along quicker than those by the Wye 
side. Ludlow, Leominster, and Hereford are the markets at 
which they principally come out in their third autumn ; but 
many of the more forward lots have been sent off before the 
Hereford October Fair, and a great many never enter the fair at 
all, but are lifted at once from the pastures. Hence the general 
mass of buyers do not see the best of them, and remark, not 
without reason, on the falling off both in number and stamp from 
Avhat they can remember. Leading buyers will not wait as they 
did when there were no railway facilities for travelling about 
to see and for removing the lots, and the jvestige of a fair, be it 
