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I fear they will find themselves mistaken and 

 disappointed in the Herefords, and I am con- 

 vinced that in their circumstances they would 

 reap greater advantage by importing Angus or 

 Aberdeenshire Doddies, which are kindred 

 breeds of well-formed, moderate-sized, active 

 animals or perhaps still better, the small 

 and peculiarly symmetrical West-Highland cow 

 and to cross these with a short-horn or Dur- 

 ham bull. 



The West- Highlander possesses all the points 

 of a good feeder, and being hardy and active 

 as a deer, would suffer little from being driven 

 even 1000 miles. In its native glens it may 

 feed to twenty or twenty-five stones Amster- 

 dam, but the heifers on being transplanted to 

 a rich and sheltered pasture attain to nearly 

 double that weight. I have proved this by 

 introducing a herd of forty West- Highland 

 heifers on my own farm at Ury, (not the 

 American Ury}, where they have been crossed 

 with my short-horn bulls, and the experiment 

 on repeated trials has been attended with great 

 success ; for while the mothers by removal to a 



