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Polled Herefords 



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 except that 

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

 and the bulls when mated with 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. 

 Although 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 west as either the Hereford or the Short- 

 horn. They stand next to the Hereford and above the Short- 

 horn 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 usually been true 

 where they have been in a herd with horned bulls. If all the 

 bulls were either polled or dehorned there would doubtless be 

 less ground for this criticism. The milking qualities of the 

 cows are only fair ; they give more milk than the Hereford, 

 but not as much as the Shorthorn. A sufficient quantity of 

 milk is produced to raise a good calf. 



This breed is very early maturing, and has a tendency to 

 fatten well at any age, hence their popularity for producing 

 baby beef. In general form they are different from the Short- 

 horn and Hereford. The body is more cylindrical in shape, 



