Cattle 1853 - Lewis Family Farm

THE ANGU§ POLLS. 71
We condense the second experiment. Two Scots were fed on
English linseed cakes ; two Devons on unboiled linseed ; two others,
on- boiled linseed, and another pair of Demons on foreign, all of them
having as much hay and chaff as they could eat. It was a losing
concern in every case ; the value of the manure was not equal to the
difference of the cost and the selling prices, and strange as it may
appear, the greatest loss was sustained when the beasts were fed on
oil cake, the next when foreign cake was used, the next when boiled
linseed was used, and the least of all when the simple unboiled linseed
was given.
ANGUS POLLED CATTLE. -
There have always been some polled cattle in Angus ; the country
people call them humiies or clodded cattle. Their origin is, so remote,
that no account of their introduction into this country can be obtained
from- the oldest fanners or breeders. The attention of some enterprising
agriculturists- appears to have been first directed • to them
about sixty years ago, and particularly on the eastern coast, and on
the borders of Kincardineshire. Some of the first qualities which
seem to have attracted the attention of these breeders were the peculiar
quietness and docility of the doddies, the easiness with which
they were managed, the few losses that were incurred from their injuring
each other in their stalls, and- the power of disposing of a
greater number of them in the same space.
ANGUS ox. »»T.