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INDEX. 



Sarah (Kinnaird), 139. 

 SybU (Baads), 188, 189, 368. 



(Ballindalloch, 167, 196, 369. 



Victoria (Queen), 3B1. 



(Rothiemay), 373. 



(Westertown), 133. 



(Balwyllo), 160. 



Windsor (Qxieen), 360. 

 Zara, 153, 154, 375. 



Loss of horns in cattle, 12, 14 — Dar- 

 win on, 12 — Dr Alexander Smith 

 on, 13 — Professor Low on, 13 — ten- 

 dency to, 28. 



Low, Professor, on variations in ani- 

 mals, 9. 



Management — 

 At Ballindalloch, 385. 



Benholm, 379. 



Bridgend, 384. 



Easter Skene, 384. 



Gavenwood, 386. 



Greystone, 383. 



Kinnochtry, 378. 



Mains of Kelly, 377. 



Rothiemay, 388. 



Spott, 378. 



Waterside, 389. 



Wellhouse, 380. 

 Fullerton, Mr W., on, 377. 

 Summary of, 390. 

 System of, in herds, 376. 

 M'Combie, the late Mr William, 

 M.P., 62 — his show-yard success, 

 63— his system of breeding, 120-123. 

 Moray, polled herds in, 66. 



Nilsson on Bos Umgifrmis, 5 — on Bos 



uncs, 3. 

 Norfolk and Suffolk polled breed, 



23, 26. 



Origin of domestic cattle, 1, 25— of 

 polled Aberdeen and Angus breed 

 26, 33, 38, 44— of polled varieties 

 of cattle, 11. 



Owen on Bos longifrons, 4— on Bos 

 wits, 5. 



Panmure, Lord, as a patron and breed- 

 er of polled cattle, 55. 



Pedigree, unstained, 77. 



Pliny on Bos urus, 3. 



Polled cattle, antiquity of, 17^-olassed 

 as distinct breeds, 14— -distribution 

 of, 17— in Aberdeenshire, 29 — in 

 Banffshire, 29— in early shows, 67 

 — in England, 18, 23 — in foreign 

 countries, 17, 86— in Forfarshire, 



29— in Galloway, 21— in Ireland, 21 

 — in Kincardineshire, 29 — in Lan- 

 arkshire, 19 — in Morayshire, 66— 

 in Scotch Highlands, 20 — origin of, 

 11, 13. 



Polled Cattle Society, 70 — its objects, 

 71. 



' PoUed Herd Book,' 68, 70. 



Principles of breediug, 390. 



Rearing calves, &c., 376, 390. 

 Rutimeyer on the genus Bos, 2. 



Sales, public, 444. 



1841— Brechin Castle, 445. 



1844 — Ardovie, 445. 



1848— Keillor, 445. 



1850— Bridgend, 446. 



1853— AuohtertjTe, 446. 



185&— Crathes Castle, 446. 



1857— We.st Scryne, 447. 



1857— Inohmarlo, 447. 



1857— Bridgend, 447. 



I860— Keillor, 447. 



1860— Dorsell, 448. 



1861— Kinnaird, 448. 



1862— Montbletton, 449. 



1863— Balwyllo, 449. 



1865— Kinnaird, 449. 



1867— TUlyfour, 449. 



1869— Portlethen, 450. 



1870— Castle Fraser, 450. 



1871- The Thorn, 450. 



1871— Tillyfour, 450. 



1872— Rothiemay, 450. 



1871— Ballindalloch, 451. 



1873— Drumin, 451. 



1874— Portlethen, 451. 



1874 — Westertown, 451. 



1876— Mulben, 451. 



1877— Tullochallum, 451. 



1878— Montcoffer, 451. 



1880— Tillyfour, 452. 



1881— Balqnham, 452. 

 Sales, private, 451. 



rise in price of bulls at, 452. 



average prices at, from 1850 to 



1881, 452. 

 Scotch cattle, breeds of, 26, 68 — dif- 

 ferences in, 26 — origin of, 25. 

 Scuts, 77. 



Selection in breeding, 14 -Colum- 

 ella on, 16 — in ancient nations, 



16 — Palladius on, 16 — Virgil on. 



16. 

 Senior Wranglers, 421. 

 Shorthorn cattle in Aberdeenshire, 60 



— threatened extinction of poUs, 



61 — crosses in Buchan, 73. 

 Show-yards, the breed in, 393. 



