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tending in considerable numbers to Ireland. This is the most numerous breed cultivated exclusively for the dairy in the British 
Islands. The individuals are of medium size, and of various colours, with short horns. They are capable of subsisting on ordi¬ 
nary pastures, and yield a large quantity of milk in proportion to their size and the food consumed. 
14. T,he Polled Suffolk Breed, cultivated for an unknown period in Suffolk and the adjoining districts. The individuals are 
of medium size, with defective forms; but the cows are admirable for the quantity of milk which they yield. The breed is 
losing ground continually, from the want of care of the breeders, and the effects of crossing. 
15. The Falkland Breed of Fifeshire, apparently derived from Holland, inheriting the milching properties of the Dutch 
races, but now nearly extinct in the pure state. 
16. The Polled Irish Breed, of large size, and well suited to the dairy, but much scattered, and merging in the races with 
which it is crossed. 
17. The Sheeted Breed of Somersetshire, a variety singular by the contrast of red and white colours on the body, suited to 
the dairy, but now in small numbers, gradually decreasing. 
18. The Long-horned Breed, from time immemorial spread over Ireland and the western counties of England, still occu¬ 
pying a great tract of country both in the mountains and plains, and varying in size with the fertility, natural or acquired, of the 
districts in which it has been naturalized. It was on the basis of this widely spread race that Bakewell reared the beautiful 
Breed of Dishley, which spread over the midland counties, and extended its influence widely by crossing the older and coarser va¬ 
rieties. The Long-horned Breed is now giving rapid place to others better suited to the purposes of the breeder, the grazier, and 
the consumer. 
19. The Teeswater Short-horned or Durham Breed, derived immediately from the district of the Tees, and perfected by 
Charles and Robert Colling, in the county of Durham. This breed possesses a better combination of properties than any 
of the larger cattle yet produced in the British Islands, is everywhere extending its limits, and superseding the pre-existing 
breeds, or modifying their characters by intermixture. 
To these breeds of British cattle might be added a numerous class of mixed characters and origin, but which rarely exist in 
such numbers, or exhibit such a uniform class of characters, as to admit of being regarded as true breeds. The most varied of this 
class are found in the countries of the Dairy, where individuals are selected for their milching properties, without reference to a 
common origin. 
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