THE UNITED KINGDOM. 



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have proved by long experience to have been profitable in their native 

 homes: 



Name of breed. 



Annual 



average 



gallons of 



milk. 



Milk to 1 

 pound of 

 butter. 



Milk to 1 

 pound of 

 cheese. 



Live weight. 



Cow. 



Bull. 



Ox. 



Ago at 

 maturity 



Weight 

 of meat at 

 maturity. 



Polled Aberdeen Angus 



Polled Galloway 



West Highland 



Ayrshire 



400 

 380 

 330 

 GOO 



Galls. 



Galls. 



Lbs. 

 1,300 

 1,250 

 1,050 

 900 



Lbs. Lbs. 

 1,700 1,600 

 1, 650 1, 550 

 1, 400 1, 250 

 1, 150 II, 050 



Trs. 



Lbs. 



900 

 850 

 720 

 620 



Name of breed. 



Color. 



Description. 



How 



long bred 

 pure. 



Origis 

 breed. 



Polled Aberdeen Angus 



Polled Galloway 



West Highland 



Black. 



Ayrshire 



....do 



Black, red, 

 dun. yel- 

 low, brin- 

 dled. 



Black and 

 white, red 

 and white, 

 brindled. 



Long deep body on short legs ; 

 the finest of beef; rich flesh 

 on small bone ; glossy coat ; 

 best of beef producers, and 

 fairly hardy. 



Long 'haired, deep framed, 

 wealthy fleshed, strong bone, 

 very hardy; suitable for 

 wintering outside. 



Long horns, long hair, short 

 legs, deep ribs, good out- 

 line, somewhat narrow 

 frame, great length, hard- 

 iest British breed, winter 

 outside. 



Short upstanding horns, 

 sharp hind quarters, broad 

 ribs, smooth skin ; best 

 dairy breed in Scotland, if 

 not in Great Britain. 



Nearly a cen- 

 tury. 



Over a cen- 

 tury. 



Time imme- 

 morial. 



For genera- 

 tions. 



The old 



Scotch cat- 

 tle. 



Scotch races. 



Obscure. 



Uncertain. 



Product. 



Name of breed. 



Labor. 



Milk. 



Cheese. 



Polled Aberdeen Angus . . . 



Polled Galloway 



West Highland 



Ayrshire , 



Good 



Fair 



Untractablo .. 

 Scarcely used. 



The finest grained.. 

 E xcellent rich flavor. 



Finest flavor 



Fair quality 



Rich ;... 



Good quality 



Rich but small 



Great in quantity 



and of fair qual- 



ity. 



Fair. 



Good quality. 



Fine. 



Good. 



NOTE. Animals fattened hard from youth for exhibition of the Polled and West Highland breeds 

 arrive earlier at maturity than is indicated above, and attain greater weights, but the estimates given 

 are about average. Cows fed on bean-meal or other special food \vill give larger returns in milk, but- 

 ter, and cheese than the above. 



In supplement to the foregoing tabular matter, I subjoin further in- 

 formation relative to the Polled Galloway and Ayrshire cattle which, 

 may be deemed of interest. 



CHARACTERISTICS OF A TYPICAL GALLOWAY. 



I quote from a pamphlet published by the Eev. John Gillespie, M. A., 

 editor of the Galloway Herd-Book of Great Britain (to whom I am in- 

 debted for other information contained in this report), as follows: 



Statement of the characteristics of a typical animal of the Galloway breed. 

 [Drawn up by the council of the Galloway Society of Groat Britain, 18th April, 1883. j 



Color : Black, with a brownish tinge. 



Head : Short and wide, with broad forehead and wide nostrils ; without the slight- 

 est symptoms of horns or scnrs. 



