CATTLE, TOLLED. 
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Polled Angus Cow. 
Angus or Aberdeen Polls. 
There are but three prominent beefing breeds in the world : the Short Horn, 
Hereford, and Angus or Aberdeen poll. 
Several others are eminent both in quality and adaptability to particular cir- 
cumstances, but none of them have proved equal to these three in all that goes 
to make the modern model ox on pasture or in the stall. Angus, or Forfar- 
shire, in Scotland, some fifty years ago, took up the important question of the 
improvement of its native cattle upon the principles then well known through 
the successes of Short Horn breeders, and ere long immense progress resulted. 
Hugh Watson, of Keillor, was the principal agent and worker-up of all this. 
He was unquestionably the father of not only this branch of these polls, but 
necessarily, as we shall see, also of that of the Aberdeen line. These cattle 
were hornless, black, good milkers, somewhat stiff fatteners and good at living 
on “nothing” upon the somewhat bleak rolling pastures of Angus. The 
stamp of animal now on hand by Mr. Watson’s skill and perseverance is con- 
sequently very hardy, grand graziers, fattening and ripening early on pasture, 
and, as a natural result of man’s interference, also good as stall feeders. 
The men of those parts and times were not indifferent to the illustrious 
Durham, as several purchases were already in possession of the more choice 
farms of the north of Scotland, but, in view of securing the more valuable 
•haracteristics of England’s famous beefer, along with a hardier constitution, 
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