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Vol XLII. No 1724 
NEW YORK, FEB. 10, 1883. 
PRICE FIVE CENTO. 
$2.00 PER YEAR. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1888, by the Rural New-Yorker, In the office of the Librarian 
of Congress at Washington.] 
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ANGUS - ABERDEEN POLLED COW 
CLARISSA, AN D BULL SIR EUSTACE 
Years ago a gentleman who had had a large 
experience in breeding cattle in Australia 
made to the writer a statement which at this 
time seems to have been prophetic. He said, 
“ There is in my old home (Scotland) a breed 
of cattle which you Americans have entirely 
overlooked, and the time will come when the 
black Polled Angus Cattle will be much 
sought after by the great ranch-owners of the 
Far West, and will command higher figures 
than any other imported stock. I thought, in 
my ignorance, that the speaker was a *' little 
off,” and was probably an enthusiast on the 
subject of some old hornless stock his father 
had in the Highlands. Since then I have had 
some experience and obtained a knowledge of 
this most valuable breed, and I acknowledge 
my former error and am prepared to apolo¬ 
gize for the injustice of it. Half a dozen years 
ago, however, very little was known here of 
the merits of the black-polled cattle. 
Prior to 1878, when Mr. McCombie, of Tilly 
four, and Sir George Macpberson Grant, of 
Ballindalloch, sent representatives of their 
respective herds to the great Paris Exposi¬ 
tion, very little was known in this country of 
polled cattle, but the success then achieved 
«nri the favorable comments then made by the 
press and breeders of Europe attracted the 
attention of American cattle men. Smce 
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