THE UNITED KINGDOM. 



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have proved by long experience to have been profitable in their native 

 homes: 



Xame of breed. 



Polled Aberdeen Angus 



Polled Galloway 



West Highland' 



Ayrshire 



Annual 



; Milk to 1 Milk to 1 



milk. 



butter. 



Galls. 



330 



COO 



cheese. 



Galls. 



Live weight. 



Cow. Bull. Ox 



Lbs. 

 1,300 



i, 2r>o 



1,050 

 900 



Ago at 

 maturity. 



Lbs. Lbs. 



1,700 1,600 



l,Cf.O l.foO 



1,400 1,'Jf.O 



,150 1,050 



Trs. 



Weight 

 of meat at 

 maturity. 



Lbs. 



900 

 850 



7L'0 



NOTE. Animals fattened hard from youth for exhibition of the Polled and West Highland breeds 

 arrive earlier at maturity than is indicated above, and attain greater weights, but the estimates given 

 are about average. Cows fed on bean-meal or other special food will give larger returns in milk, but- 

 ter, and cheese than the above. 



In supplement to the foregoing tabular matter, I subjoin further in- 

 formation relative to the Polled Galloway and Ayrshire cattle which, 

 may be deemed of interest. 



CHARACTERISTICS OF A TYPICAL, GALLOWAY. 



I quote from a pamphlet published by the-Eev. John Gillespie, M. A., 

 editor of the Galloway Herd-Book of Great Britain (to whom I am in- 

 debted for other information contained in this report), as follows: 



Statement of the characteristics of a typical animal of the Galloway breed. 

 [Drawn up by the council of the Galloway Society of Grout Britain, 18th April, 1883.) 



Color : Black, with a brownish tinge. 



Head : Short and wide, with broad forehead and wide nostrils ; without the slight- 

 est symptoms of horns or scnrs. 



