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destroyed by pleuro-pneumonia in 1849-1850, but during his day 

 Mr. Fullerton was regarded as a foremost constructive breeder. 



Sir George Macpherson Grant of Ballindalloch, Banffshire, who 

 died in 1907, was long a noted breeder. In 1869 Mr. McCombie 

 wrote that "perhaps the Ballindalloch herd of polled cattle are 

 the oldest in the North ; they have been the talk of the country 

 since my earliest recollection, and were then superior to all other 

 stock." Since the time of McCombie this has been regarded as 

 the premier herd of Scotland. Here some of the best bulls of the 

 breed produced in the past forty years have been bred, including 

 Juryman (421), Ermine 

 Bearer 1749, Prince 

 Inca' (7844), Bush- 

 ranger (732), Justice 

 854 Judge473, Prince 

 Ito (50006), Eltham 

 (9120), Bion 36986, 

 Emulus 204 1 7, Eblito 

 50098, Eblamere 



(2 1 781), and Eques- 

 trian 34216. The cows 

 Erica 184, Jilt 422, 

 and Coquette 2538 

 are among the famous 

 founders of families at 

 Ballindalloch. On the death of Sir George Macpherson Grant 

 his son Sir John succeeded him and is maintaining the herd. 



The introduction of Aberdeen- Angus cattle to America was com- 

 paratively recent. In 1873 George Grant of Victoria, Kansas, 

 brought the first to America, the importation being three bulls, 

 two of which were shown at the Kansas State Fair. These bulls 

 were imported to use on Western-range cows. In 1876 the 

 Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph brought to Canada two 

 bulls and a cow. In 1878 Anderson & Findlay of Lake Forest, 

 Illinois, imported five cows and a bull, this being the first firm 

 to exhibit prominently in the Central West. In 1879 F. B. Red- 

 field of Batavia, New York, and in 1880 George Whitfield of 

 Rougemont, Quebec, made importations, In 1881 and 1882 a 



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Fig. 118. Everard 2d of Maismore (31888), the 

 most noted recent-day x\berdeen- Angus show bull 

 in England. From photograph by the author in 1914 



