The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1886-07-08
Angus and Gail Yas

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ter I will try to tell honest dlauirers
what Z sbelieye to be the difference be-
tween Galloway and PolIed Angus cat
tie: Let me say in the outset, i baYaS;
read most Of the articles, pro and con.
and after searching and studying nearly
five years, conclude that M we GO far
enough back, aay to the Feiudal age We
shall find that the wild black and poIled
cattle owned by thes wild men Of that
period and stolen back and forth from
each other at every. opportunity, were d. I
the self-same, Identical breed that Hero
dotus speaks Of, and that have been ref
erred to as sScythian cattle, and that
now we classify as follows: The black
Polled cattle raised in what is called tfle 4
Galloway district by the name Of Gallo
ways, and the black Polled cattle raised in
the northern or Aberdeen and Angus dis
trict, and called Aberdeen or Angus cat
tie. 5.$
But have not told the difference YET
between the Galloway and Angus: Well
let me say that a Scotchman on his ma
tive heath is like the laws Of the Medes
and Persians; he seldom, If ever, changes.
The,ambition Of the boys is to do what
their fathers did, and in:about the same
way, Now the Scotchman in southern
Scotland, which is the Galloway dis:
trict, is raising the same kind Of cattle,
(and with a few exceptions, notably, the
Duke Of BucclGuch, and a few Of the
best farmeTs) is trying to raise them as
what is called "store' cattle 1--WE call
them stock cattleA BY grazing principal
ly, upon as poor. land as any man would
wish to see:, Being near 4thaG Gulf stream
the climate is not very severe. but
cloudy, misty and rainy. This PECULIAR
climate and running cut. browsing for
living. is what. makes the hair Of the
Galloway so shaggy, and with poor care
and poor feed for generations is probably
what makes him so slow feeder, and iii
a measure accounts for his absence from
the Smithfeld fat-stock shows year after
year. \ .,z4i ,3l 5:5s
I presume every man has concluded
there was u great similarity between the
breeds. 1 know I was struck with that
fact when I first saw them, and any man
who will take: the trouble to examine
closely, cattle bred by the Duke Of Buc-
cleuch will see how very much: like the
Polled-Angus they are. especially in
head and hair. want to- be entirely
fair in what l say, and record myself
here as saying believe that originally
the Angus and Galloway were the same
wild breed of cattle, and that the dis
tinctive difference in them to-day is,
the more and longer .skillful mating,
feeding and improving by man. The
Objectionable features have been bred of
the Angus to far greater extent, and
the desirable features have been bred on,
until to-day they are known as two dis
tinct breeds, and have two distinct books
of records for the pedigreed stock. I may
say think that usefulness will be found
in both of: these breeds, especially in q
country like this, where most Of our
| cattle are scrubs, and right here want
to close by saving, that experience will
prove to every farmer and cattleman,
that horns area positive detriment in
very many ways, and the reader Of this
article can keep it, to remember, that ]
saw if any man ever hantileS cattle one
season without horns he Will forever
Danish horned cattle from his place
G. W. Henry in Kansas City Livestock
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