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The Scottish Cattle Breeding Conference

Armour's Livestock Bureau, Chicago

Abstract

Depending upon the viewpoint of the visitor, mixed opinions will doubtless be delivered on the success of the Scottish Cattle Breeding Conference, held in Edinburgh, July 7 to 12, 1924. Never before has there been an attempt to bring together the scientists and the practical breeders in as intimate a manner as was here undertaken. While the conference was ostensibly developed as a conference between the two types of workers in breeding, and while some of the scientists perhaps had more of the professorial attitude than some of the practical breeders appreciated, yet the net result was a rather comprehensive interpretation of practical livestock breeding in terms of the modern science of genetics, which after all, was the purpose of the conference.

An Influential Gathering

The support of the conference was widespread. Contributions came from the Board of Agriculture for Scotland, the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, the Royal Ulster Agricultural Society, the Shorthorn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the Mid-Ulster Shorthorn Breeders' Association, the Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society, the British Friesian Cattle Society, and the Ayrshire Cattle Herd Book Society of Great Britain and Ireland.