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and in Canada, but are raised in the greatest 

 numbers in the central corn states, especially 

 Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, and Ind- 

 iana. Within recent years a large number of 

 importations have been made and an increasing 

 number of native stock has been distributed 

 throughout the various parts of the country for 

 the purpose of improving the grade of beef animals. 

 In regard to their grazing ability, opinions differ 

 quite widely and much bitter controversy has 

 prevailed. According to some cattle men, the 

 Angus is too indolent to become a good animal 

 on the range. Others, however, insist upon it 

 that the Angus is superior in this respect to the 

 other breeds. The quality of the meat of the 

 Angus is usually considered superior to that of 

 the Shorthorn or Hereford and equal to its near 

 relative the Galloway. One of the chief strong 

 points of the Angus is its strong prepotency. The 

 Angus bull, when used in grading up beef animals 

 from native stock, transmits its characteristics to 

 an unusual extent. In from seventy-five per cent, 

 to ninety per cent, of cases the progeny of Angus 

 bulls are black and hornless without regard to the 

 color of the cow. In size they are slightly inferior 

 to the Shorthorns and likewise in milking prop- 

 erties. In Scotland the Angus gives a fair amount 

 of milk of good quality, but in America no attempt 

 has been made to keep up the quantity of the milk 

 in breeding. Attention has been given in this 

 country entirely to the production of the finest 

 possible quality of beef. The Angus appears to 

 stand shipping by rail somewhat better than the 

 other breeds of cattle. As already indicated the 

 color of the Angus is black with an occasional 

 occurrence of a narrow white line along the belly 



