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larly their hardiness of constitution, beautiful synru. -try, an 1 finely fla- 

 voured flesh. Their straight and level backs, their round and deep car- 

 casses, and the quantity of good meat which they yield in proportion to- 

 their size, are most valuable points. 



Of this breed there are several distinct varieties. The principal are the 

 Kyloes the aboriginal breed of Scotland, and existing in its greatest state 

 of purity in the Isle of Skye. In Perth and Ross, and Argyle, the pas- 

 tures will bear a larger breed, and it is in the latter county that the i 



' Uiijhlti"!' r is to be seen in full perfection. The broad back, the 

 short legs, the fine muzzle, and the black-tipped horns, the quality of the 

 t, and the quickness of the fattening, will sufficiently distinguish him. 

 The Rev. M. Gillespie, editor of " The Galloway Herd-book," says, " I 

 think there can be very little doubt but that the Galloway and West 

 hland breeds of cattle have sprung from the same parent stock, at a 

 remote date. There is a close resemblance, even at the present day,, 

 jtween a well-bred polled Galloway and a West Highland minus the 

 lorns. Indeed the similarity is so great that when we bear in mind the 

 t that previous to the close of the eighteenth century, almost all the 

 illoways were horned, it is easy to understand how any difference be- 

 reen the two types may have been produced by the different circum- 

 ices in which they have long been placed." 



THE ABERDEEN- ANGUS POLL. 



Tin-re are but three prominent beefing breeds in the world: the Short- 

 Hnvford and Aberdeen Angus poll. 



ral others are eminent both in quality and adaptability to parti- 

 circumstances, but none of them have proved equal to these three in 

 11 that . make the modern mod?l ox on pasture or in the stall, 



or Forfarshiiv, in Scotland, some fifty years ago, took up the im- 

 int question of the improvement of its native cattle up<>n the princi- 

 n well known through the success of Short -horn breeders and ere 

 ilted Hugh Watson, of Keillor, was the prin- 

 cipal a i worker-up of all this. He was un<|uexti<>nably the fathei 

 lily this branch ot'the-e pulls, but necessarily, as we shall see. also of 



ii I'm.-. Tl iese- cattle were hornless, hla<-k, -rood mil', 

 hut .stiff fatt. I good at living mi "nothing" upon tin- B< 



leak rollin^i ,,f Angus. Th.- stamp of animal now'oii han-l 



skill and perseveraE e- ( uently very hardy, grand 



ig and ripming rurly "ii pasture, and. as a natural result 

 of man's int'-rfrivi: good as 



