CHILLINGHAM CATTLE KILLED FOR CHARITY.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 26, 1 April 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

CHILLINGHAM CATTLE KILLED FOR CHARITY.

On 8:1 (iirdn y, January 1, 17 07, Charles Bennet, third Mart of Tankerville, ordered a slaughter of some of the famous cattle, ill the park of Chillingham C'a-tle, Xorihimiherland, still the resilience- of the seventh and present earl, where a herd of these famous animals are slil! alive. They were killed on tlii- occasion that their flesh, with a proportionable quantity of bread, might lie distributed to above six hundred poor | ersons in the neighbourhood. Cliillingham covers 1,500 acres, but is only the remnant of a great forest which formerly extended from Dunkeld, in the Scotch county of Perthshire, to Alnwick, in Northumberland, or more than a hundred mile. 'i'his kind of half-wild cattle now survive only in Britain at Cliillingham and at Cadrow Forest in the Scotch county of Lanarkshire. The Cliillingham ones are white, with a Mack muzzle, and the interior of the ear and a portion outside from the tip is red. while the horn? are white, with black tips, and have an upward bend. At Cadrow both ears and muzzle are black, and it is said that the Cliillingham ones, being partly alibnos, or white, must have been a result of domestication, and consequent cross with other breeds.