Setting some standards….

….there is debate from time to time (one is going on now) within Devon circles about what makes “a proper Devon”.  Folks can get pretty dogmatic, and some in the two Devon associations think they should impose the answer.

My old “mate” in Cornwall, Ivan Rowe, came up with this old picture to make his point.  She is a Devon heifer—Clampit Gay Lass 27th—female winner of five shows in 1929 and Grand Champion in three of them!  As a longtime judge for the British Devon society, he “knows one when he sees one”.

I would call Gay Lass the Tilbrook Cashtiller of her era.

It was when we saw the Devon in Ivan Rowe’s Goldings herd at Lands End in Cornwall that our Traditional Devon project began.