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kets in car-load lots for eleven successive years comprehends a 

 great deal to the man that is raising cattle. The end and aim of 

 all breeds of beef cattle is the butcher's block, and the breed that 

 dresses the highest per cent is the breed that appeals to the cattle 

 raiser." 



This statement was made and can be proven to the Aberdeen- 

 Angus breed. This you note v^as published in 1901. They have 

 done so every year since that time, and now it is seventeen years, 

 and they topped the market at the last International at $17.00 per 

 100 pounds, live weight, the highest price that a car-load of cattle 

 ever sold for in Chicago. Nor are their winnings confined to this 

 country, for they won the London Smith field show, wich is the 

 International of the British Isles. 



The Angus breed for the year 1906 made the most imposing 

 section of the show. The record of this great beef breed at this Lon- 

 don show is nothing short of marvelous, for prior to this year's 

 show, over a period of fifteen years, the breed has produced a 

 grand champion on no fewer than seven occasions, which is 

 quite a remarkable feat, when the many different breeds of cattle 

 comprised in the inter-breed competitions which take place at 

 Britians leading show are considered. At the 1903 Birmingham 

 Show, England, out of four classes, Aberdeen crosses won all the 

 first prizes, three out of four prizes, all of the third prizes, besides 

 an extra prize of thirty pounds for the best cross bred. Therefore, 

 the Angus won eleven out of the twelve prizes. Truly a flattering 

 illustration of the potency of the Aberdeen-Angus, when mated 

 with the other breeds. 



Now, doesn't this strike you as being significant — topped the 

 market in car-lots for seventeen years without a break, nearly 

 always furnishing the grand champion car-load and single fat 

 steer in open competition; and that, too, when there were propor- 

 tionately 100 head of the other breeds to one of the Angus from 

 which to select these prize winners, the Angus being comparatively 

 a new breed in this country, the first importation being less than 

 thirty years ago? 



I hope I have made myself understood as to the market top- 

 ping qualities of the Angus cattle. And now I wish to say some- 

 thing of horns, or rather no horns. Other things being equal, isn't 

 it much'better to have no horns? I remember well the first winter 

 I kept my pure-bred herd. Many times before retiring for the 

 night I would take the lantern and go out to see that they were 

 all under shelter, especially so when there was a hard storm or bliz- 



