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horn bull on virgin polled heifers has also been accredited 

 with the power of stamping Shorthorn qualities upon their 

 future calves by bulls of their own breed. But Cossar Ewart's 

 telegony experiments (page n) have shown this to be merely 

 a popular fallacy. 



In-and-in breeding has been adopted to fix the good 

 qualities which have from time to time been spontaneously 

 produced by nature under the influences of the tendency to 

 change brought about by crossing. In the matter of con- 

 sanguineous relationships, the Aberdeen-Angus is not an 

 exception to the rule which applies to the Shorthorn and 

 other well-known breeds. Hugh Watson of Keillor, in 

 Forfarshire (born 1789, died 1865), was tne Colling of the 

 Northern polled breeds, carrying out the principles laid down 

 by Bakewell and his followers. But it was reserved for 

 William M Zombie, of Tillyfour (born 1805, died 1880), to 

 make the breed known to the outside world. After a long 

 and successful showyard career, he eclipsed all the previous 

 performances of the breed by carrying off two champion 

 prizes of 100 each at the Paris International Exhibition in 

 1878 (i) For the best group of foreign cattle; and (2) for 

 the best group of beef-producing animals both bred by the 

 exhibitor. 



During recent years no breed has been so successful as 

 the Polled Aberdeen-Angus in competing for the highest 

 honours at the London and Birmingham Christmas fat 

 shows, and at similar "expositions" in America. In this 

 country the names of Clement Stephenson, Newcastle ; 

 George Wilken, Waterside of Forbes ; Sir W. G. Gordon 

 Gumming, Bart, of Altyre ; and the Earl of Strathmore, 

 Glamis Castle, are closely associated with these honours. 1 



" At the Smithfield Club Show during the last twenty-five 

 years (1879 to 1904 inclusive): The champion plate for 

 the best beast in the Show has been won eight times by 



1 Full details of the wonderful showyard performances of this breed 

 on both sides of the Atlantic up to 1886 may be seen in Auld's work, The 

 Breed that Beats the Record^ published by Aldine Co., Detroit ; and more 

 recently in a brochure compiled by Albert Pulling, the Secretary of the 

 English Aberdeen-Angus Association, and issued in January 1905, on 

 Aberdeen- Angus Cattle and their Crosses as Beef -Producers (from which 

 the subjoined quotation is extracted), and in Supplements to the above, 

 issued in 1906 and 1907. 



