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showing off the head, that both must be judged together, 

 keeping an eye to a full neck-vein and brisket. A full 

 thigh is good, but the animal should not be double- 

 hipped — a fault that has worn out. A neatly-laid-in 

 tail is a point of great beauty, but boxing-gloves at each 

 side of the tail-head is not good, and is not Angus. A 

 full rib is good, but it should not be like the side of a 

 drum. When a beast is in condition, if the point behind 

 the shoulder is low and naked, a prize by that beast is 

 not easily secured. The top of the shoulder is a splendid 

 piece of meat, and should be full ; while the top all along 

 should be broad and level, and well covered, especially 

 over the sirloin, the roast of roasts. The ears should be 

 large, hairy, and not over wide set." 



Mr Thomas Ferguson, Kinnochtry, states that his 

 calves suckle their dams till from six to eight months 

 old ; and that after being -weaned they get straw, turnips, 

 and cake or bruised oats, in covered courts. He feeds 

 the buU-calves in the same manner all the winter after 

 weaning, and generally sells them in spring when they 

 are a little more than a year old. After Mr Ferguson's 

 heifers are ten months old, they get little food, excepting 

 straw and turnips, until put upon the grass. Bulls are 

 used when about twelve months old, and heifers mated 

 when about two years old, seldom sooner. He feeds 

 liberally the bulls that are in use, but he keeps his cows 

 rather lean than fat. In winter his cows before calving 

 are fed in covered courts, with about 30 or 40 lbs. of 

 turnips per day along with barley-wheat or oat-straw, 

 generally either of the two former, as oat-straw is scarce. 

 After calving, they get three times as many turnips as 

 before ; and in summer they are kept solely on the grass 

 fields. 



Mr William Whyte, Spott, Kirriemuir, informs us that 

 his cows get a few turnips in the morning, and if the 

 weather permit they are sent out to a hillside during the 



