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CATTLE ABERDEEN-ANGUS RED POLLS 



Lodge, Kettering, Northants ; T. Fielding Johnson, Goscote 

 Hall, Leicester; Mrs Macpherson, Wyrley Grove, Pelsall, 

 Staffs ; J. M'Intyre, Theakston Lodge, Bedale, Yorks ; 

 Arthur J. Owen, Shanvaghey, Ballacolla, Abbeyleix, Queen's 

 County ; The Duke of Richmond and Gordon, Goodwood, 

 Chichester ; Clement Stephenson, Sandyford Villa, Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne ; Col. W. Neville Tufnell, Langleys, Great Waltham, 

 Chelmsford, Essex ; Thomas Wotton, Tile Lodge, Sturry, 

 Canterbury. 



Average Prices at Auction Sales of Aberdeen - Angus 

 Cattle in Scotland, twenty -four Years, 1882-1905, 

 from the Banffshire Journal. 



The Aberdeen-Angus Red Poll is a pure strain of the 

 Northern Scotch Polls derived from red specimens that have 

 appeared from time to time among the best Black Polled 

 herds. This sub-section of the breed has been collected by 

 W. K. MacDonald, Windmill House, Arbroath, N.B., whose 

 herd numbers about forty animals. He began by purchasing 

 from George Wilkin " Waterside Elena 2nd " whose dam 

 was champion heifer at Birmingham Fat Stock Show, first 

 prize cow at the Highland Society's Show at Dundee, and 

 first at the Royal Northern Show at Aberdeen. With the 

 founder of the herd and her progeny some half a dozen other 

 red cattle of the best strains of blood in Scotland have been 

 mated. The females keep easily up to the level in quality 

 of well-bred herds ; but the difficulty in dealing with such a 

 limited number of cattle is to find a stock bull good enough 

 to mate with them. Resort has been had to a black bull, who 



