1921.] 



Aberdeen- Angus Cattle. 



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houses, through whose hands millions of cattle of all breeds 

 pass every year, the following results have been attained. The 

 Carcass Competition there was instituted in 1900, and in that 

 year a Shorthorn cross was Champion (what kind of cross is 

 not stated) , but every year since that date the Championship 

 has been gained by pure Aberdeen-Angus cattle or a cross 

 therewith, *all black and polled. Probably the most remarkable 

 collection of beef animals in the wide world is the Car Load 

 Lots of 15 exhibited there, matched to perfection like a row 

 of peas in a pod. Shorthorn cattle were Champions in 1909; 

 Herefords in 1901 and 1903, and Angus the other 15 years of 

 the competition. Owing to foot-and-mouth disease Smithfield 

 Club shows were not held in 1914 and 1915. 



The Aberdeen-Angus most nearly approaches the ideal 

 butcher's animal. As I wrote in the Live Stock Journal Almanac, 

 1910: — " Meat traders, after continued experience with all 

 breeds of cattle are unanimous in awarding the palm to the 

 Aberdeen- Angus; short on leg, small in the bone, deep in flesh 

 of a fine mellow grain throughout, with well-rounded hooks 

 and buttocks, it is undoubtedly the best type of what a beef- 

 producing animal should be. Even its coarse parts are more 

 valuable than those of other breeds, the flanks and briskets 

 have greater depth of flesh and are interspersed with less 

 wasteful fat and gristle." I have likened the Angus to a 

 student of economy: — 



" It does a bit at every bite 



And makes the most of every mite." 



In other words, it puts on fat so regularly and smoothly 

 throughout that no loss is occasioned to the butcher by having 

 to trim unnecessary fat from parts of the carcass. The butcher 

 hates patchiness, which is an evil all breeders should avoid and 

 use their best endeavours to eradicate. Shorthorns and Here- 

 fords are very prone to accentuate this fault, especially when 

 fed for fat stock shows, on the tail head, the hooks, ribs, 

 brisket and flanks. Brought up in my youth amongst these 

 two breeds, I had a predilection for them, and the height and 

 goal of my ambition at that time was to possess a herd of either ; 

 but later experience proved incontestably that the Angus 

 cattle were supreme as beef producers of the choicest quality, 

 and as ** market toppers " in price could not be equalled. 



This opinion is not biased or unique amongst meat traders. 

 Mr. James Brown, chief cattle buyer for Armour and Co., 

 who judged the car load lots at the International Live Stock 



