CHAPTER IX. 

 POLLED CATTLE. 



ANGUS COMPARED WITH THE GALLOWAI . 



I. PoUed Cattle in General. 

 Of the various breeds of p<,lled or Irornless eattle, however good in 

 England, „o„e have proved valu.hle in the United States and C=m,^a, 

 except the Galloways and the Polled Angus. Of these only the Gallo- 

 way have l.een at all widely dissen>inated. Docility of temper even 

 among old bulls •, the little space taken up in the feeding stalls, on account 

 of their mild disposition and absence of horns ; the.r l>-d-- ' f^l^f^ 

 with which they take on flesh, and the thickness and hue quality of he 

 beef are some of the principal characteristics of excellence n. polled 



cattle. 



II. The Galloways. 



For the colder and hilly districts, when all cattle must be protected in 

 winter, and in all regions where the Short-Horn proves ^o '«"' <■'' t^" 

 Galloway cattle are steadily gaining in favor, /'-y 7 --!*''"?^ '^ 

 cattle, it being unusual f,>r the cows, even under good keepmg, to g.ve 

 ml than twdve quarts of n.ilk a day, and the average rs g.ven a mx or 

 ei.rht quarts. But the milk is rich, yielding a pound of butter, aoco.d 



;tl English authorities, to eight or ten quarts of nnlk. The cows, a 

 a rule, go dry for two or three months in the year, even under the best 



of nianaofenicnt. ^ i i * ^offio 



It has been said of them that there is, perhaps, no breed of cattle 

 which can be more truly said to be indigenous to the eountiT, and mcapa- 

 :,e of improvement by any foreign cross, than the GaUoway. T e 

 Short-Horns almost everywhere else have unproved the cattle of the d.s 

 trXto which they have traveled; at least in the first cross produced 

 rMflrtLprovemL : but even in the first cross the Short-H°r,.s have 

 done little -ood in Galloway, and, as a pe.manent mixture, the choicest 

 short-hlbuUshavemanifeftly failed. The intelligent Galloway breeder 

 tilv perfectly satisfied that his stock can only be rmproved by adher- 

 ence to the pure breed, and by care in the selection. 



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