Xll CONTENTS. 



standing Matildas and Kuths SOUTH YTHSIE THE THORX 

 Traces mainly to the Ashmore stock Flower of Strathmore 479, 

 and her son President 4th 368 THOMASTOWN WATERSIDE or 

 FORBES Mr Wilken selects 200 polled breeding cattle for ex- 

 portation Prides, Ericas, Fannys, Sybils, and Daisys Pride of 

 Aberdeen 7th 1777, dam of Mr Auld's 270-guinea cow Large 

 sales to foreign purchasers WELLHOUSE Mr Anderson's herd 

 started in the end of last century Ruth of Tillyfour 1169 

 WESTER FOWLIS WESTSIDE OF BRUX OTHER HERDS, . 295 



CHAPTER XV. 



THE BREED IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND. 



Polled cattle at the Battersea and Kilburn International Exhibi- 

 tions Pride of Aberdeen 581 and Mr Richard Booth's Queen of 

 the Ocean, the two best females at Battersea English herds 

 Baliol College Beechwood Bradley Hall The Ballindalloch 

 Ericas Ewell Fellcourt Goodwood Horsted Roos Smea- 

 ton Manor South Ella Studley Priory Mr Henderson's ex- 

 perience with the breed The breed in Ireland Mr Hugh 

 Watson's success at the early shows of the Royal Irish and 

 Royal Dublin Societies Grey-breasted Jock 2 closed his career 

 in the Emerald Isle The herd of Mr Kirkcaldy of Hearnesbrook 

 and Mr Seymour of Ballymore Castle Lord Talbot de Malahide 

 and Lord Lurgan Herds of Mr Owen, Blessington, and Mr 

 Collis of Tieraclea, . . . . . .324 



CHAPTER XVI. 



THE BREED IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Probable distribution of the breed Introduction to America 

 Polled bulls on the Kansas prairies High quality of their pro- 

 duce Prospects of the breed in America Chief foreign herds 

 and importation Herds in the United States Herds of Messrs 

 F. B. Redfield, A. B. Matthews, Anderson & Findlay, J. J. 

 Rodgers, Gudgell & Simpson, G. W. Henry, J. V. Farwell, &c. 

 In Canada The Ontario School of Agriculture, Mr Mossom 

 Boyd, Hon. J. H. Pope, Hon. M. H. Cochrane, Mr George 

 Whitefield, Mr Geary Importations to New Zealand Mr 

 Robertson's herd at Waimea, . . . . . 339 



