THE ANGUS POLLS. 



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We condense the second experiment. Two Scots were fed on 

 English hnseed cakes ; two Devons on unboiled linseed ; two others 

 on boiled linseed, and another pair of Devons on foreign, all of them 

 having as much hay and chaff as they could eat. It was a losing 

 concern in every case ; the value of the manure was not equal to the 

 difference of the cost and the selling prices, and strange as it may 

 appear, the greatest loss was sustained when the beasts were fed on 

 oil cake, the next when foreign cake was used, the next Avhen boiled 

 linseed was used, and the least of all when the simple unboiled lin- 

 seed was given. 



ANGUS POLLED CATTLE. 



There have always been some polled cattle in Angus ; the country 

 people call them humlies or clodded cattle. Their origin is so remote, 

 that no account of their introduction into this country can be obtained 

 from the oldest farmers or breeders. The attention of some enter- 

 prising agriculturists appears to have been first directed to them 

 about sixty years ago, and particularly on the eastern coast, and on 

 the borders of Kincardineshire. Some of the first qualities which 

 seem to have attracted the attention of these breeders were the pecu- 

 liar quietness and docility of the doddies, the easiness with which 

 they were managed, the few losses that were incurred from theu- in- 

 juring each other in their stalls, and the power of disposing of a 

 greater number of them in the same space. 



