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saw them. The work was carried on until 1828, when Mr. 

 Reeves held a dispersion sale. By this time the breed had 

 obtained a firm foothold and rapidly increased. The polled 

 character, blood, red color, and early maturity, became firmly 

 fixed; but in the earlier years of breeding, after Reeves' 

 guiding hand had left the helm, the beef form was nearly lost 

 sight of, many breeders believing that a wedge shaped form 

 was absolutely essential to dairy capacity. It remained for 

 two Norfolk tenant farmers to correct this, and Benjamin 

 Pond of Dunham, and Nicholas Powell of Snoring, bred reso- 

 lutely to secure the excellent beef form, deep flesh, and early 

 maturity of the old Norfolk sort, with the polled head, deep 

 milking capacity, and blood red color of the new polled breed 

 as bred by the breeders who followed Reeves. 



Pond died early in his work, but Powell continued breed- 

 ing for forty years, and seems to have exercised rare skill 

 and judgment. He produced what was practically the original 

 Norfolk breed, plus the polled character and milking proper- 

 ties of the old Suffolk. And such is the characteristic of the 

 Red Poll of Great Britain, evolved from composite elements 

 by skilful crossing and selection for a definite end. 



