200 CATTLE-BREEDING. 



mainly resulted, not from any intentional ex- 

 perimentation with cross breeding, but rather 

 from high grades of one breed being bred as 

 grades to bulls of other breeds. There may be 

 some exceptions to this, but in the main this is 

 true, and they are classed in the shows with 

 grades. Among these animals there have been 

 quite a variety of breeds represented, and many 

 combinations of blood have been presented. 

 The principal breeds have been the three great 

 beef breeds the Short-horn, the Hereford, and 

 the polled Angus. We find, also, the Galloway, 

 the West Highland, and the Devon breed in a 

 few cases. Among these there have been sev- 

 eral animals of very high excellence which 

 were crosses of Short-horn and Hereford, some- 

 times with some native blood also, and quite a 

 large number of a cross between the Angus 

 and the Short-horn. The steer Plush was a 

 successful mixture of Devon with Hereford 

 blood ; while the phenomenal steer Nigger 

 showed how excellently, at least in his case, a 

 mixture of Hereford and Angus blood had re- 

 sulted. 



Whether these cases of extraordinary results 

 produced by crossing different breeds will ever 

 take form in any practical experiments to de- 

 termine the value of such crosses for producing 

 cattle for the beef market may well be doubted. 

 The method of grading as a subordinate depart- 



