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Aberdeen-x\ngus Cattle. 



[Nov., 



The carcass of " Minx of Glamis " was a remarkably fine 

 one, undoubtedly the best of a grand quartette. Other 

 Aberdeen- Angus Championship successes have been won by 

 Earl Eosebery, The Duke of Portland, Col. Mclnroy, Sir 

 Eichard Cooper, J. D. Fletcher and another breeder. 



The Aberdeen-Angus as a Butcher's Beast.— How far the 

 points of excellence aimed at by the breeder are appreciated 

 by butchers, is doubtless a question of great interest to those 

 agriculturists who desire to produce the best types of the 

 various breeds of cattle indigenous to Great Britain, and whose 

 successful efforts have been rewarded by raising their country's 

 cattle to such an eminence that its stock is sought by every 

 country suitable for cattle breeding. The value of these efforts 

 to the butcher continues to be exemplified abroad, especially 

 in the United States of America, Argentina, and in recent 

 years Xew Zealand and South Africa, from which sources we 

 have been drawing huge supplies to feed our teeming millions. 

 So far as the first country is concerned, these supplies of beef 

 are almost a thing of the past; it is now difficult for it to feed 

 its own increasing population. Notwithstanding its great 

 commercial development and its millions of acres, its cattle 

 breeding industiy has not kept pace with its expanding popula- 

 tion and national progress, and consequently it has now to 

 resort to importations from the Argentine and elsewhere. 



The estancieros of Argentina, wise in their generation, had 

 with much foresight and unstinted outlay raised up from its 

 Criolla (native) stock by the aid of the best British bulls, 

 principally Shorthorn, vast herds of commercial cattle suitable 

 for exportation. When in 1910 I was invited by its great Rural 

 Society to judge Aberdeen-Angus cattle for the first time, I 

 found the Shorthorn very popular and in the ascendant, the 

 Hereford with a wealthy and important following, but the poor 

 Doddy the despised and rejected of men. The merits of the 

 Aberdeen- Angus were only appreciated, with one or two excep- 

 tions, by the smaller and less important section of breeders, 

 but what a revolution of opinion and esteem has occurred in 

 10 brief years! One dared hardly then mention the incompar- 

 able merits of the Aberdeen- Angus before being " sat upon " 

 by the enthusiasts of the other two breeds. 



The American packing houses were, however, just opening 

 their first great plant, and knowing so well its mode of pro- 

 cedure, I was very optimistic and prophesied those coming 

 events which were casting their shadows before. The English 



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