ABERDEEN-ANGUS CATTLE. 



NOTES ON FASHION AND AN ACCOUNT OF 

 SOME OF THE LEADING FAMILIES OF THE 



BREED. 



FOR the information of those who may not be 

 well acquainted with this breed, it may be stated that 

 the pedigree of an animal is recorded in the female 

 line tracing back to the first ancestress entered in the 

 Herd Book and that the name of the family, to which such 

 animal belongs, is that of such foundation cow or of some 

 other distinguished ancestress in its pedigree. 



It is the usual but, unfortunately, not the universal 

 custom, when entering an animal in the Herd Book, to 

 select for it a name having the same initial letter as that 

 of the family name, or one that in some other way forms 

 a means of identifying the animal with its family. 



It will be noticed by anyone attending sales of this 

 breed, that certain animals which come into the ring cause 

 much more spirited bidding than other equally good- 

 looking animals, and it will be found that such animals 

 usually belong to certain families. 



For want of a better word the families, to which such 

 bid-inspiritinganimalsbelong, are called the "fashionable" 

 families, there being of course degrees of fashion. 



It may be of interest to consider why certain families 

 have become thus fashionable. 



