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heifer — I)(>ni in August, i'.tlO. The Society is indebted to Mr. 

 Oator for the following particulars concerning his herd : — 



The White Polled Cattle at Woodbastwiek number upwards of flt'ly, 

 inchiding- three bulls and twenty cows besides calves and steers. They have 

 been at Woodbastwiek since about 1840, and are an offshoot of the now extinct 

 Guuton herd, which, aceordinu' to Storer (Wild Wliite Cattle of Great Britain), 

 were brought to Norfolk in the latter part of the 18th century from Middleton 

 I'ark, Lancashire, the seat of the Assheton family. The herd, then related to 

 that at Gisburiie, can be traced to Whalley Abbey, Lancashire, and Bewick 

 mentions in 1790 that the cattle there were by traditicm formerly the pi'operty 

 of the abbots of that monastery until its suppression in the time of Henry 

 VI IL. and had remained there subsequently until his time. 



The Woodbastwiek herd owes much during the last twenty-five years 

 to that of Sir Charles Shakerley, of Somerford Park, Cheshire, for a periodical 

 interchange of bulls has produced characteristics now common to both, the 

 shape, with black jioiuts, ear, rim round the eye, muzzle, and spots on the 

 front fetlock being similar. The red points, which were formerly the feature 

 of the Gunton herd, have mainly disappeared. 



Occasional crossing with the Shorthorn has been found inevitable to 

 prevent the breed from extinction, but, despite this, the herd preserves a strong ' 

 type, the tendency to white, even after crossing, being very marked. No 

 Shorthorn has been used for four generations. 



The cow exhibited at Norwich yielded, in 1910, 11,083 lb. of milk in 47 

 weeks, with an average weekly yield of 22J gallons, the highest weekly yield 

 in May being 429 lb. 



The bullocks fatten rai)idly, and are in considcraljle demand among the 

 dealers in the district. 



Shorthorns. — The entry in this section, numbering 219, 

 though perhaps not above the standard, was, on the whole, up 

 to the average. Village Diamond, the first prize winner in 

 Class 86 (bulls calved in 190G, 1907, or 1908) was also awarded 

 the Championship. This animal is remarkably even fleshed 

 and short legged, with true typical characteristics, and was an 

 easy winner. The second prize went to a bull of similar 

 l)reeding, a year younger than the one above. The class as a 

 whole was good. In Class 87 (bulls calved in the first three 

 months of 1909) the first and second prize winners stood out 

 clearly in a moderately good lot, the former winning easily. 

 Class 88 (bulls calved in the last nine months of 1909) had a 

 large entry of moderate animals. The first prize in Class 89 

 (bulls calved in the first three months of 1910) went to a bull 

 of considerable merit, but though the entry was a large one, 

 there was no other exhibit of very high class. Class 90 (bulls 

 calved in the last nine months of 1910) was a large one contain- 

 ing many good animals, and though the first two appeared 

 pretty equal in merit, there were a large number of very useful 

 bulls behind them. The group class, for the best collection of 

 either three oi- four Shorthorn bulls bred by exhil)itor and entered 

 in the pi-eceding classes, contained a creditable lot of six entries, 

 making a good show in the ring. Cows in milk calved in or 

 before 1907 (Class 92) were only eight in number. The three 



