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Formerly the breed varied in color, when there were brindles, 

 dun-colored, or drab, and some with white spots. About 1835 

 Youatt wrote that dark colors were uniformly preferred from the 

 belief that they indicate hardiness of constitution. 



The size of the Galloway hardly equals that of the Shorthorn, 

 Hereford, or Aberdeen-Angus, and it may be rated as a bit smaller 

 than these at the same age. Mr. A. M. Thompson states that 

 as yearlings past they can be made to weigh from 1000 to 1200 

 pounds ; at two, from 1200 to 1400 ; at three, from 1400 to 1600. 

 Typical bulls will weigh about 1800 to 1900 pounds and cows 

 1300 to 1400 pounds when not in high flesh. In show condition 

 much better weights may be secured. Lady May 11562, a famous 

 show cow, weighed 1740 pounds at the 1901 International Live- 

 stock Exposition. 



The Galloway as a meat producer, as has been indicated, has 

 always ranked high. For many years large droves of Galloways, 

 said to exceed twenty thousand a year, were driven from Scotland 

 into England and fattened and sold for beef. Galloway cattle 

 have never been raised in large numbers excepting in the Gallo- 

 way district and so have not usually been important factors in 

 the show ring, at least outside of Scotland. At the 19 16 Inter- 

 national Live-Stock Exposition there were fifty-four head entered 

 in the breeding classes and but nine steers. There never has been 

 a large and high-class show of steers of this breed at the Inter- 

 national. Yet Galloways feed uniformly and smooth, patches and 

 rolls being uncommon. The Galloway carcass ranks very high in 

 quality and is valued by discriminating buyers, but it has not played 

 an important part in the carcass contests at the International Live- 

 stock Expositions. In 1909, in the two-year carcass class. Gallo- 

 ways won second and fourth places, Domsie dressing 65 per cent 

 and Scottish Lad, shown by Ohio State University, dressing 65.8 

 per cent. In 19 10 the second-prize two-year-old steer Highland 

 Laddie (which weighed 1672 pounds alive) dressed 69.55 per cent, 

 while the fourth-prize yearling was a Galloway-Shorthorn cross, 

 dressing 66.66 per cent. In 191 1 the second-prize yearling car- 

 cass was the Galloway Bobby Burns, dressing 67.2 per cent, while 

 in 191 3 the third-prize two-year-old was a Galloway, dressing 66.57 

 per cent. All of the prize-winning Galloway carcasses were shown 



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