28* the Galloway breed; which would also im- prove the form of the chest; in which, the Devonshire cattle are often deficient*.’

* That horns, appendages disliked by many good hus- bandmen, can be readily or generally removed from any particular breed by such a cross, unless long persisted in, may be doubted. Itis alleged not to be more than 70 or 80 years since the Galloways were all horned, and very much the same in external appearance and character with the breed of black cattle which prevailed over the west of Scotland at that period, and which still abound in perfec- tion, the larger sized ones, in Argyleshire, and the smaller, in the Isle of Sky. The Galloway cattle, at the time al- luded to, were coupled with some hornless bulls, of a sort which do not seem now to be accurately known, but which were then brought from Cumberland—the effects of which crossing were thought to be the general loss of horns in the former, and the enlargement of their size; the continuance of a hornless sort being kept up by selecting only such for breeding, or perhaps by ether means, as by the practice of eradicating with the knife the horns in their very young state. Some persons in Argyleshire tried, when large animals were somewhat in vogue, to raise the size of their own stock by means of Galloway bulls; but the descendants of such a cross were very seldom hornless, though they became thereby bigger and heavier in their carcase—a change so far, but in

few instances an improvement, and now rarely attempted,