. Cattle. Cattle; Cattle. LUNG HORNa 79 Whence tb ^e long-horns criginally came, is a question. There is no doubt that they very much resemble the English long-horns, and have been materially improved by them ; but whether Ireland or England was the native country of this breed, will never be deter- mined. Ancient records are silent on the subject; and in both countries we can trace the long-horns to a very remote period. Many persons have concluded that the English long-horns sprunor from some of the imported Irish ones. Others, however, with more reason, finding the middle-horns in eve
. Cattle. Cattle; Cattle. LUNG HORNa 79 Whence tb ^e long-horns criginally came, is a question. There is no doubt that they very much resemble the English long-horns, and have been materially improved by them ; but whether Ireland or England was the native country of this breed, will never be deter- mined. Ancient records are silent on the subject; and in both countries we can trace the long-horns to a very remote period. Many persons have concluded that the English long-horns sprunor from some of the imported Irish ones. Others, however, with more reason, finding the middle-horns in every mountainous and unfre- quented part of the country, and the long-homs inhabiting the lower and more thickly inhabited districts, regard the middle-horns as the pure native breed, and the long-horns to have been a stranger race, and introduced probably from Lancashire, where a breed of cattld of the same character and form is IRISH CATTLE. However this may be, there was a variety of circumstances which rendered the march of improvement much more rapid in England than in Ireland. While the British long-horns had materially im- proved, those in Ireland had not progressed in the slightest degree. More than a century ago, zealous agriculturists in Meath com-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Youatt, William, 1776-1847; Martin, William Charles Linnæus, 1798-1864; Stevens, A. New-York, C. M. Saxton
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