1887] Hornless Ruminants. 1097 
ciety’s Transactions), author of the “Agricultural Survey of 
Angus-shire,” published in 1813, writing twelve years later, said,— 
“The polled are not confined to Galloway. I have frequently 
seen individuals without horns among the cattle in various parts 
of the Highlands and isles.” 
This is very important evidence. But, further, and even more - 
interesting, William Aiton, author of the “General View of the 
County of Ayr,” dated 1811, writes (p. 412), referring to the horns 
of the various breeds of cattle, “the breed of Mull have none.” 
John Smith, D.D., in his “Survey of Argyleshire,” says of the 
cattle, “ Few of them are polled;” which indicates that polled 
ones did, however, occur. 
Obliteration of a Modern Polled Race—Fife Polls —Youatt, 
P. 117, says,— 
“A breed of polled cattle has also made its appearance in Fife, 
possessing all the good qualities of the horned, with even superior 
Propensity to fatten, and much greater quietness and docility. 
Professor Low, p. 333, says of them,— 
“Extending from Fifeshire westward to the Ochil Hills, the 
cattle are generally hornless, and of a size intermediate between 
the breeds of the Highland mountains and those of the plains. 
me of these cattle, especially those of the Ochil Hills, are 
really good, and suited to the country in which they are —_ 
and merely demand that attention to the selection of the breed- 
ing parents which shall call forth their more useful properties. 
Pik Mr Dickson, in his work on live stock dated 1851, but which 
4 also refers to the beginning of the century, says of this polled 
i breed, it is “unlike any others in Scotland ;” it “is of good 
_ Size and substance, and rather coarse, but equally suitable for 
Shipping. Lays on flesh very well, and seldom deceives = 
butcher in weighing.” Dickson ranks this breed as one of the 
‘ “four distinct polled breeds in Scotland.” 
~ f them the late Charles Stevenson, 
ritish Agriculturist, wrote, in 1863,— 
editor of the North 
X 4 At no very distant date there exi 
a re the Ochils to the east of pare eins Hills, 
= — tule, a very valuable breed of polle 
colors were brown, brown and white, black and wh 
