108 AMERICAN CATTLE. 



"A bullock well fattened, will weigh from 560 to 840 pounds, 

 net, at three or three and a half years old, and some have been 

 fed to more than 1400 pounds at five years old. 



"There is, perhaps, no breed of cattle which can be more 

 truly said to be indigenous to the country, and incapable of 

 improvement by any foreign cross, than the Galloways. The 

 short-horns almost every where else have improved the cattle of 

 the districts to which they have traveled. They have, at least 

 in the first cross, produced manifest improvement, although the 

 advantage has not often been prolonged much beyond the 

 second generation; but even in the first cross, the short-horns 

 have done little good in Galloway, and, as a permanent mixture, 

 the choicest southern bulls have manifestly failed. The intelli- 

 gent Galloway breeder is now perfectly satisfied that his stock 

 can only be improved by adherence to the pure breed, and by 

 care in the selection. 



"The Galloway cattle are generally very docile. This is a 

 most valuable point about them in every respect. It is rare to 

 find even a bull furious or troublesome." 



After this minute and excellent description by Youatt, little 

 further need be said of them at home, and we proceed to speak 

 somewhat of 



THE GALLOWAYS IN AMERICA. 



Whether they were imported at an early day into this country, 

 in their purity of blood, we have no knowledge; but as Yonatt 

 says: "So late as the middle of the last centurv, (1750,) the 

 great part of the Galloways were horned," (which we somewhat 

 doubt,) the probabilities of their coming here are light. It is 

 certain, however, that polled cattle came over with some of the 

 early importations, as such have been known here for more than 

 a century past. As they were red, spotted, and of all colors 

 usual among our native cattle, they probably were picked up 

 from the polled herds of Norfolk or Suffolk, in England, where 



