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have tried a cross from Mr. Bakewell's bulls." This then was a 

 Longhorn cross on the Galloway, but Culley says that with what 

 success he has not been able to learn, though breeders were gen- 

 erally against crossing this on Longhorns or any other breed. 

 The Galloway was also crossed on the cattle of Westmoreland and 



Fig. 94. Worthy 3d (imp.) 21228. A great prize-winning Galloway bull in 

 Scotch shows, grand champion male of the breed at the Louisiana Pur- 

 chase Exposition in 1904, and champion at numerous other leading 

 American shows. Imported by C. E. Clark, St. Cloud, Minnesota. Photo- 

 graph by the author 



Cumberland, England. Besides the above breeders, Youatt, about 

 1835, mentions as early improvers the Gordons of Greenlaw, the 

 Maxwells of Munches, and the Maitlands of Kirkcudbright ; and 

 in Wigton the Earl of Galloway, the Maxwells of Mouneith, the 

 McDowals of Logan, the Cathcarts of Genoch, the Hathorns of 

 Castle-Wig, and the Stewarts of Phygell. It has been assumed 

 that in-and-in breeding has not been practiced by Galloway 

 improvers, but that the development of the breed has been 

 largely due to careful selection, the breeders of Scotland generally 

 uniting in this work. About 1840 dairying became popular in 

 Galloway district, notably Ayr and Dumfries, and as the polled 



