SUSSEX CATTLE TO THE FRONT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3221, 26 October 1881, Page 4

SUSSEX CATTLE TO THE FRONT.

Bad seasons in England, and the consequent poverty of food, are developing r:- ; ,r._ attention to breeds of cattle than can stand hard times better than the shorthorns. Amongst the breeds coming to the front are fcb- noleys of Angus-shire, and the Sussex Btock. Of the latter the Live Stock Journal, speaking of a recent exhibition at Tunhridge Wells says that nothing excited so much wonder ob the lines which seemed enrH-'ss, of Sussex cows, heifers, and bulls, near 1 ., all of

*-rnordinary merit, as compared with the _. age of Sussex cattle exhibited a few years ago, and comparing favorably with the specimens, now exhibited, of any othei of the beef-making varieties. While the Devon always taking precedence in the Bath and "West of England Society's catalogues, mustered 21 entries, the übiquitous shorthorn, strongly upported even in the connty of Sussex, and having, more than any other breed, the favor of men of wealth and influence contributed 48 entries. The Hereford, with its greatly increased reputation and promise of more formidable rivalry than heretofore with tha shorthorn, 34 entries; the _i-eed kept mainly, almost exclusively, in one district, sent a contingent of 126 prime anim_ls, above a score more than all the Devons, BTerofords, and shorthorns put together. The weight, character, and early maturity of the Sussex animals exhibited were so remarkable, it seems impossible to donhfcthat when fairly in its present bicrh state of improvement, brought under • ni>fi.'» of foreign hiivev.*, this breed mu=t ~.;.minnrl a largo market for countries like our own, whore the ■. ■ _nlity of feed is worse than doubtful at times. Its hereditary po~ • of endurance —for its ancestry were bred for the plough—is also in its favor. A groat work is unquestionably going on among Sussex breeders, and when men work with steadfast will upon kindly materials, they can do great things.