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with horns." Another fact, which shows the great care 

 required in keeping pure this breed (the Angus doddies) 

 is related of the Keillor Stock, where, two different 

 seasons, a dairy cow of the Ayrshire breed, red and 

 white, was allowed to pasture with the black doddies. 

 In the first experiment, from pure black Bulls and Cows, 

 there appeared three red and white calves ; and on the 

 second trial, two of the calves were of mixed colours. 

 Since that time care has been taken to have almost 

 every animal on the farm, down to the Pigs and Poultry 

 of a black colour. 



INFLUENCE OF THE MALE IN BREEDING. 



An ordinary Cow, and a Bull without horns, will pro- 

 duce a calf resembling the male in appearance and 

 character, without horns and without that particular 

 prominence of the transverse apophysis of the frontal 

 bone. The milk of the female from this cross, also, 

 proves the influence of the male : it has the peculiar 

 qualities of the hornless breed less abundant,, contain- 

 ing less whey, but more cream and curd. 



GENERATIVE PRECOCITY. 



A Mr. Gordon relates the following singular instance 

 of fecundity and early maturity in the Aberdeen Cattle. 

 " On the 25th of Sept., 1805, a calf of five months old, 

 of the small Aberdeenshire breed, happening to be put 

 into an enclosure among other Cattle, admitted a male 

 that was only one year old. In the month of June 

 following, at the age of fourteen months, she brought 

 forth a very fine calf, and in the Summer of 1807, 

 another equally good. The first calf, after working in 



