Xll CONTENTS. 



standing — Matildas and Ruths — South Ythrie — The Thoen — 

 Traces mainly to the Ashmore stock — Flower of Strathmore 479, 

 and her son President 4th 368 — Thomastown — Waterside of 

 FoEBES — 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 — Wellhoitse — Mr Anderson's herd 

 started in the end of last century — Ruth of Tillyfour 1169 — 

 Wester Fowhs — Westside of Brtjx — Other Herds, . 295 



CHAPTER XV. 



the breed in ENGLAND AND IRELAND. 



Polled cattle at the Battersea and Kilburn International Exhibi- 

 tions — Pride of Aberdeen 681 and Mr Richard Booth's Queen of 

 the Ocean, the two best females at Battersea — English herds — 

 Baliol College — Beechwood — Bradley Hall — The BallindaUoch 

 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 Heamesbrook 

 and Mr Seymour of Ballymore Castle — Lord Talbot de Malahide 

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

 CoUis of Tieraclea, ...... 324 



CHAPTER XVI. 



THE BREED IN FOREIGN COIJNTKIES. 



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, Gadgell & 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 



