POLLED CATTLE. 735 



coat of hair than the Angus oxen. The Angus cattle are regularly 

 kept in straw yards during six months of the year, receiving turnips 

 with their fodder every day, and in summer are grazed on dry and 

 warm pastures. By this treatment they look and feel more kindly 

 than the Galloways. 



ABERDEEN-ANGUS BULL— HE'S A STAK. 



ABERDEEN-ANGUS IIKIFKK-ABBESS McHENRY. 

 IX. Color of the Polled Angus. 

 The greater part of them are black, or with a few white spots. 

 The next general color is yellow, comprehending the brindle, dark red, 

 and silver-colored yellow. They are a valuable breed, and have rapidly 

 gained ground on the horned cattle, and become far more numerous, 

 particularly in the Lowlands; and when the agriculturist now speaka 

 if the Angus breed, he refers to the polled species. 



