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seem to be especially adapted for use on the larger plantations, 

 where animals are not given extremely good care, and where the 

 production of beef alone is desired. Two or three crosses on 

 the native stock of the south produce a good beef animal that 

 matures early and fattens out well. On plantations especially 

 or on farms with only fairly good pastures the Hereford will 

 give better results than the Shorthorn. 



The Am-erican Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association mentions 

 the following as some of the bulls which have been most in- 

 fluential in improving the Hereford breed in the last fifteen 

 years: — Perfection Fairfax, Beau Donald, Beau Brummel, Cor- 

 rector, Disturber, Bonnie Brae 8th, Perfection, March On 6th, 

 Prime Lad, and Repeater. 



Polled Hekefords. 



The Polled Hereford is a new breed developed by selecting 

 and breeding Herefords which showed polled characteristics. 

 The double-standard Polled Herefords are purebred Herefords 

 which are hornless and are eligible to registry in either the 

 American Hereford herd book or the American Polled Hereford 

 record. They differ in no way from the Hereford exceiit that 

 they have no horns. The polled feature has been well fixed, 

 and the bulls when mated Avith native cattle sire few calves 

 having either long scurs or horns. 



Aberdeen- Angus. 



Aberdeen- Angus cattle are solid black in colour, and have no 

 horns. These characteristics are so strongly developed that a 

 bull, when bred to horned cows of various colours, will usually 

 produce calves of which 85 per cent, or more are black in colour 

 and hornless. Occasionally a red animal is found in this breed, 

 but the colour is not popular among breeders. While the 



Aberdeen-Angus is an old breed, it is only within recent years 

 that it has been so popular in the United States. While they are 

 good rustlers, they have never been as popular on the ranges of 

 the Avest as either the Hereford or the Shorthorn. They stand 

 next to the Hereford and above the Shorthorn as graziers on 

 scanty pastures. This breed is extremely valuable for grading 

 up native cattle, but they have been criticised to a certain 

 extent by rangemen because they do not get a greater percentage 

 of calves. This has usuallv been true where they have been in 



