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Title: The breeds of live stock, and the principles of heredity ..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Sanders, James Harvey, 1832-1899. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Livestock
Publisher: Chicago, J. H. Sanders publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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and, of Balhaggarty,Inverurie, Scotland; selected by Mr. Robt. Bruce, Great Smeaton, forthe Messrs. Geary, of Bli Bro Stock Farm, London, Ont., Can., andexhibited by them at the Kansas City and Chicago Fat-Stock Showsof 1883 and 1884. He had stood second in a strong ring of two-year-olds at the Smithfield Show in London before his importation,and was not only a prize-winner at the American shows (among hiswinnings being the three-year-old championship of the Chicago exhi-bition of 1883, judged by butchers), but probably contributed as much(if not more) than any other one animal ever shown in the Westtoward popularizing the Aberdeen-Angus breed. He was thickly andsmoothly covered with a line quality of flesh well distributed through-out the most valuable parts of the carcass; showed a beautifully-filled neck-vein, extra thighs and quarters, and netted upon the block71 per cent of net to live weight, pulling down the scales beforeslaughter at 2,400 lbs. Sketched from life by Burk. (322)
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CHAPTER XII. GALLOWAY CATTLE. The Galloways were doubtless closely allied originally to theirblack polled neighbors of Aberdeenshire and Angus; and there isevery reason to believe that until a comparatively recent period nospecial effort was made to prevent their intermixture, although thecircumstances of location and the currents of trade were not suchas to promote the same to any great extent. Intentional crossing ormixture of breeds is born of a desire to effect improvement, althoughsuch a course of breeding is frequently ill-advised, and there does notappear to have been much effort to improve the quality of Gallowaycattle until within a comparatively recent period. From this andother known facts it is argued that there is no breed of cattle thatcan lay such claim to the title pure bred as the Galloways. Itis claimed by the partisans of the Gallowa)7 breed that while thegreat improvers of the Hereford and Short-horn races made use ofall the material they could lay their hands on f

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