INDEX. 



Aberdeen or Angus Polled Cattle- 

 Antiquity of, 28. 

 Average price from 1850 to 1881. 



453. 

 Characteristics of, 72. 



Do., of bulls, 82. 



Do., of females, 82. 

 Colour of, 76. 



Difference from Galloways, 82. 

 Early history of, in Angus, 29. 

 Early improvers of, in Angus, 48, 



54. 



Foreign demand for, 87. 

 Heavy yield of beef, 83. 

 High value of crosses, 85. 

 Improvement of, 45, 48, 79. 



Do., in Aberdeenshire, 60. 

 Improvers of, in Aberdeenshire, 65. 

 In show-yards, 393. 

 Increase in price of, 87, 453. 

 Indigenous to north-east of Scot- 

 land, 27. 



Minute description of, 78. 

 Origin of, 26, 33, 38, 44. 

 Roundness of form, 79. 

 Scurs in, 76. 

 Their adaptation for crossing with 



Shorthorns, 84. 



Their early maturing properties, 85. 

 Their milking properties, 87. 



Do. , Lord Airlie on, 87. 

 Their superior quality of beef, 83. 

 Their symmetry of form, 78. 

 Value of bullocks, 86. 

 Victories in Smithfield, 85. 

 Weight of bullocks, 86, 382. 

 Youatt on, 32, 36. 



Aberdeenshire, Dr Keith's survey of, 

 34 Galloways in, 36, 39 polled 

 cattle in, 29, 33. 



Aboriginal cattle in Scotland, 25 

 provided with horns, 11. 



Agricultural societievS and the improve- 

 ment of polled cattle, 67. 

 Angus, polled cattle in, 29, 44. 

 Ayrshire cattle, 2t>. 



Banffshire, polled cattle in, 29, 66. 



Bison, 35. 



Bos frontosus, 2. 



longifrons, 2, 4, 9. 



taurus, 6, 8. 



trochoceros, 2. 



urus, 2-9. 



Breeding, piinciples of, 390 selection 



in, 14 in ancient nations, 16. 

 British cattle, origin of, 7-9, 25. 

 Buchan, polled cattle in, 33, 34, 36. 



Cadzow Park wild cattle, 19. 



Caesar on the Bos urus, 2. 



Calves, dropping and rearing of, 376- 



390. 

 Carnegie, Hon. Charles, on Kinnaird 



herd, 135-153 on Ardgay herd, 



154, 155 on Balwyllo herd, 156- 



164. 

 Cattle rearing, early improvement in, 



4:0. 



Characteristics of ancient Angus dod- 

 dies, 72 of ancient Buchan humlies, 

 72 of improved polled breed, 76. 



Chillinghain wild cattle, 6. 



Collier, Mr John, on breeding of Pan- 

 mure (51), 97. 



Colour of polled breed, 76. 



Darwin on loss of horns, 12. 

 Domestic cattle, origin of, 1, 6, 8, 



Fife breed of cattle, 47. 



Foreign countries, the breed in, 339. 



Forfarshire, polled cattle in, 27. 



