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and as Buchan Humblies, and yet again as Polled Aber- 

 deens. The word polled was used to indicate the hornless 

 Aberdeenshire cattle and thus to distinguish them from 

 another breed, now almost extinct, which inhabited the 

 same shire and had horns. 



At a still later time the breeders of these hornless cattle 

 in the various parts of northeastern Scotland came to- 

 gether, and, deciding that the cattle were all of one breed, 

 proceeded to choose a suitable name. To please the par- 

 tisans of the two districts in which most of these cattle 

 were then to be found, the name adopted was Polled 

 Aberdeen-or- Angus cattle. This name became shortened 

 by dropping out the word " or " and putting a hyphen 

 in its place. 



It has been further abbreviated, because of the passing 

 of the horned breed, to Aberdeen-Angus, the word polled 

 being now deemed unnecessary. This idea has been 

 adopted also by the Polled Galloway breeders, so that their 

 breed is now known as Galloway cattle. Both in Scotland 

 and America, even the name of Aberdeen-Angus has been 

 shortened, and in Scotland the cattle are generally re- 

 ferred to as the Polled cattle, while in America they are 

 called the Angus cattle. 



These Aberdeen-Angus cattle have been great favorites 

 in Scotland for more than a century, but unfortunately 

 on two occasions diseases attacked the cattle in that 

 country and decimated the herds. Later, when the 

 government had stamped out these diseases, the cattle 

 again began multiplying, and soon assumed an important 

 place among the domestic animals of the kingdom. The 

 World's Fair held at Paris, France, in 1878, gave the breed 

 an opportunity to demonstrate its great merit, and, with 

 only fifteen representatives, it won the champion-herd 



