LECTURES XXIV. AND XXV. 



RED POLLED CATTLE. 



introduction Into America. 



While there are accounts of the transfer of some of the 

 Norfolk and Suffolk cattle to America, with the early col- 

 onists who came over before the Revolutionary War, and of 

 some small importations in the early part of the last century, 

 the first definite accounts that we have of an importation of 

 any considerable size is in 1873, when Gilbert F. Faber of 

 Putman County, New York, imported some. He made other 

 importations in the years following, and seems to have 

 pushed the merits of the breed before the public, for other 

 importations began in the early eighties, and the breed has 

 spread rapidly over the United States and, to some extent, 

 in Canada. The cows have demonstrated their ability as 

 milk and butter producers at the Columbian and Pan-Amer- 

 ican Expositions, as well as in many other tests of lesser 

 note, and the steers fatten smoothly and readily, and prove 

 profitable killers. 



No essential modification in type has occurred since im- 

 portations to America were begun, save for an increase in 

 size, due to the more favorable environments, and to the de- 

 sire of American breeders to have animals that will bring a 

 handsome cash return as milk producers or in the beef mar- 

 ket. The dual purpose character has been held to with con- 

 siderable success, and while variations toward the decided 

 beef or dairy type occasionally occur, a fairly well fixed type 

 has been established. 



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