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the body has a great relative depth with corresponding shortness 

 of leg. The hips of the Aberdeen-Angus are usually neatly 

 covered and well laid in. The rump frequently slopes consider- 

 ably to each side of the tail head, which may set level or be a bit 

 high, but is usually long and heavily fleshed. The thigh and twist 

 carry as great a relative proportion of meat to bone as any breed 

 of beef cattle, though it often lacks the squareness of the Short- 

 horn at the back thigh, being rounder in outline and very deep 



FIG. 119. Eritus 5th 245516, by Blackcap Bertram 183787, first-prize junior year- 

 ling and reserve-champion Aberdeen-Angus female at the 1918 International Live- 

 stock Exposition. Photograph by Hildebrand, by courtesy of the owners of the 

 cow, C. D. and E. F. Caldwell, Burlington Junction, Missouri 



in the twist. The leg is usually short and fine in quality of bone 

 and joint. In quality this breed is of the first rank, as shown by 

 the mellow, elastic, medium thick skin, the fine coat of hair, and 

 moderate joints and small bone. Compared with the Galloway 

 the Aberdeen-Angus has a smoother, shorter coat of hair and 

 generally a shorter, blockier type of body, with more spring and 

 depth of rib. The temperament, in general, is more nervous than 

 that of the Shorthorn. 



The color of Aberdeen- Angus cattle is almost universally black, 

 though red occurs at rare intervals. In the early days of the 



