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eminence in America of the " doddie," as it is 

 affectionately called in its Scottish home, is well justi- 

 fied. The Aberdeen-Angus has held the champion- 

 ship at Chicago three times out of the last seven 

 contests. It has won the prize for the best car- 

 load five times out of seven, and for nineteen years 

 the car-lots of this breed have topped the beef- 

 market of Chicago. It does as well in its home, 

 whither American and other foreign buyers are con- 

 tinually sending for the best bulls they can get. We 

 will quote the new Board of Agriculture Book of 

 British Live Stock, which gives, with strict impartiality, 

 the good and bad points of every breed : " During 

 recent years no breed has been nearly so successful 

 in open competition with all other breeds for the 

 highest honours at the Smithfield, Edinburgh, and 

 Birmingham Christmas Fat Stock Shows. In 1909 

 it capped its record by securing the Open Champion- 

 ship of the Show at each, as well as the Grand 

 Championship and the Reserve Number for the best 

 steer of any breed at the Annual International Fat 

 Stock Exhibition at Chicago." 



We expect of the cow not only beef, but butter. 

 It is doubtful, however, whether the world will be 

 able to afford much longer to specialise for butter 

 alone. The best milking breeds stand absolutely 

 nowhere among beef-producers. The shorthorn is 

 deservedly a greater favourite with professional dairy- 

 men than the Jersey, the Guernsey, or the Frisians 

 (the importation of which from Holland is practically 

 impossible under present regulations). The Aberdeen- 

 Angus yields more milk, and richer milk, than the 

 " best" shorthorn, though the non-pedigree shorthorn, 

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