INDEX. 



Aberdeen or Angus Polled Cattle — 

 Aotiquity of, 28. 

 Average price from 1850 to 1881, 



453. 

 Characteristics of, 72. 



Do., of bulls, 82. 



Do. , of females, 82. 

 Coloiir of, 76. 



Difference from Galloways, 82. 

 Early history of, in Angus, 29. 

 Barly 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 oL 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 millcing 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— GaUoways in, 36, 39 — polled 

 cattle in, 29, 33. 

 Aboriginal cattle in Scotland, 25 — 

 provided with horns, II. 



Agricultural societies and the improve- 

 ment of polled cattle, 67. 

 Angus, polled cattle in, 29, 44. 

 Ayrshire cattle, 26. 



Banffshire, polled cattle in, 29, 66. 



Bison, 35. 



Bos frontosus, 2. 



longifrons, 2, 4, 9. 



taurus, 6, 8. 



trochoceros, 2. 



urus, 2-9. 



Breeding, principles of, 390 — selection 



in, 14— in ancient nations, 16. 

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

 Buchau, polled cattle in, 33, 34, 36; 



Cadzow Park wild cattle, 19. 



Caesar on the Bos urus, 2. 



Calves, dropping and rearing of, 876- 

 390. 



Carnegie, Hon. Charles, on Kinnaird 

 herd, 135-153 — on Ardgay herd, 

 154, 165— on Balwyllo herd, 156- 

 164. 



Cattle rearing, early improvement in, 

 45. 



Characteristics of ancient Angus dod- 

 dies, 72 — of ancient Buchan humlies, 

 72 — of improved polled breed, 76. 



Chillingham 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, 

 9. 



Fife breed of cattle, 47. 



Foreign countries, the breed in, 339. 



Forfarshire, polled cattle in, 27. 



