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the world they are superior to the Short Horn and Hereford. They have every 
year during the last quarter of a century so successfully competed with all 
other breeds that their extension in Britain and importation to most civilized 
countries is becoming a thing of common occurrence. 
The Ontario Experimental Farm has had a herd of them for five years, 
and as we write (April, 1881) we read of other purchases for other parts of 
Canada, as well as for the United States and Australia. 
In view of the great field now open for the raising of cattle upon the prairies 
of North America, several importations are being made of the best animals of 
this breed for the purpose of improving the common herds: 
Galloway Cattle, 
The Galloways we have seen have proved to be most admirable cattle, 
thick-meated, deep-flunked, short-legged, fine-haired animals. That 
they were considered most valuable cattle, and worthy of being brought 
here in the early settlement of the country, is evident from the fact that 
forty years ago theso hornless or muley cattle, as they were termed, wero 
not extremely rare, often breeding back by reversion entirely hornless or 
with but the rudiments of horns, as gentle and good milking cattle. 
Gentleness is a characteristic of the pure Galloway. Even the bulls are 
noted for their docility and quiet tempers. For the reason that this 
breed of cattle have of late years been growing in favor in the West as 
grazing and milking cattle, and for the further reason that it is thought 
that crossing the Galloway on the half-wild Texan will he most valuable, 
wo append the following general characteristics of the breed. 
Tho Galloway cattle are straight and broad in the back, and nearly 
level from the head to tho rump ; are round in tho ribs, and also between 
the shoulders and the ribs, and tho ribs and the loins, and broad in tho 
loin, without any large projecting hook-bones. In roundness of barrel 
and fullness of ribs they will compare with any breed, and also in the 
proportion which tho loins bear to tho hook-bones or protuberances of 
the ribs. When viewed from above the whole body appears beautifully 
rounded, like the longitudinal section of a roller. They are long in the 
quarters and ribs, and deep in tho chest, but not broad in the twist. 
There is less space between the hook or hip-hones and the ribs than in 
most other breeds, a consideration of much importance, for the advan- 
tage of length of carcass consists in an animal being well-ribbed home, 
or as little space as possiblo lost in the flank. 
Tho Gallbway is short in the log, and moderately fine in the flank- 
bones — the happy medium preserved in the leg, which secures hardihood 
and disposition to fatten. With tho sarno cleanness and shortness of 
