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" when a Galloway bull is crossed with any horned breed nearly 

 90 per cent of the produce will be black and 95 to 100 per cent 

 without horns." Mr. A. M. Thompson of Missouri reports using 

 a Galloway bull on a herd of Shorthorn cows with very great 

 success, 98 per cent of the calves being black and all natural 

 polls. Galloways also cross very successfully with Herefords, 

 producing beef of the finest quality. The progeny of Galloway 

 bulls on other breeds, says Robert Wallace, the Scotch authority, 

 "are on the average distinctly inferior." 



The Galloway as a milk producer has no special record and 

 very little is said on this point by writers on the breed, excepting 



FIG. 98. A pair of Galloway cows in the ring at the Royal Show, Man- 

 chester, England, 1897. No. 1429 is Dora of Durhamhill (13550) 

 and 1430 is Maggie Lauder of Durhamhill (13994). The judges 

 disagreed on these two for first place. Photograph by the author 



that the cows are amply able to raise their calves. In fact this 

 is distinctly a beef breed, and no attempt has been made to show 

 the dairy qualities of the cows. Here and there note is made of 

 a milk producer, as, for example, the cow Rosy 4th of Mr. R. B. 

 Carus, of Michigan, reported by him to have been an extra milker, 

 making as high as 42^ pounds of milk in a day, testing 7.25 per 

 cent fat by Babcock machine. The quality of the milk is regarded 

 as superior. 



The size of the Galloway hardly equals that of the Shorthorn, 

 Hereford, or Aberdeen Angus, and it may be rated as a bit smaller 

 than these, at the same age. Mr. A. M. Thompson states that 



