Page:The Evolution of British Cattle.djvu/89

 they are still carefully kept up without Mixture in Colour, and where they will yield two gallons at a milking; but in order to this they require great Attendance, and the best of Food. The Alderney cow is like the Dutch in the Shortness of her Horns, but she is somewhat stronger built, and is not quite so tender."

One more extract will bring us down to comparatively recent times, and will show how the Dutch cattle continued to be imported, and how their territory in the east of England extended. It is from "Observations on Live Stock," first published in 1786, by George Culley, a Durham man, who was first a pupil with Bakewell and afterwards a farmer in Northumberland.

Of "the shorthorned or kind," Culley writes: "Their colours are much varied; but the generality are red-and-white mixed, or what the breeders call flecked; and, when properly mixed, is a very agreeable colour.

"There are many reasons for thinking this breed has been imported from the Continent—First, because they are still in many places called the Dutch breed. Secondly, because we find very few of these cattle any where in this island, except along the eastern coast, facing those parts of the Continent where the same kind of cattle are still bred, and reaching from the southern extremity of Lincolnshire to the borders of Scotland. The longhorns and these have met upon the