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cattle in Kansas. About 1900, through an effort to secure 

 pure-bred stock from regular Hereford ancestry, a number 

 of polled bulls and cows were secured by Warren Gammon, 

 of Iowa. Since 1900, when a Polled Hereford Association 

 was organized, cattle of this type have been built upon a 

 pure foundation tracing back to horned Herefords. Polled 

 Herefords are now widely bred in America, with Iowa the 

 central point of importance. 



The Aberdeen-Angus is a Scotch breed of cattle that was 

 first developed in and about the county of Aberdeen, in 

 northeast Scot- 

 land. This sec- 

 tion is about a 

 thousand miles 

 north of the lati- 

 tude of Chicago. 

 The winter cli- 

 mate of this re- 

 gion is rather se- 

 vere, and the soil 

 is not the best, 

 though the graz- 

 ing is good. Some 

 think these ani- 

 mals are de- 

 scended from 

 the Wild White Cattle. It is a hornless breed. They 

 first became celebrated through Hugh Watson, a tenant 

 farmer at Keillor. He loved his cattle and studied carefully 

 the improvement of his herd. As a result he produced more 

 early-maturing, heavier-fleshed, and more compact cattle 

 than had before been known in Scotland. He had a cow 

 named "Old Grannie" that lived to be 36 years old, and was 

 the mother of 25 calves, a wonderful record for a cow of any 

 breed. William McCombie was another famous breeder of 



Figure S3. A Polled Hereford bull. Photograph by the 

 author 



