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A striking example of prepotency in Red Polled cattle is 

 given by H. F. Euren. In the U.S. of America, "an imported 

 Red Polled cow, served by Jersey and other horned bulls, 

 from 1848 produced year after year polled bull calves, and 

 these in their turn having served all sorts of horned cows, 

 became sires of other polled cattle, usually red in colour, 

 generation after generation for thirty years." Andrew 

 Ralston, writing of the Glamis herd of Polled-Angus cattle, 

 says : " We never cross with anything but a black bull ; and all 

 crosses, whether first, second, or third, come black, and they 

 never have horns." 



Red Polled Crosses with other breeds show some interest- 

 ing and unique features. A bull, "Excellency" (6211), from 

 Mason's herd was used, beginning at one year old, by 

 William Fleming of Tudhoe, Durham, at Burn Hall, on 

 33 heifers (25 West Highland of various colours, 7 Shorthorn, 

 and I Polled Angus), which produced calves during the years 

 1900, 1901, 1902. All were red, and, when the Polled-Angus 

 calf was excluded, the polled and horned calves were each 

 16 in number. Of 15 heifers in 190x3, 10 had calves, and 

 5 of these developed horns; only i out of 6 calves in 1901 

 grew horns; but in 1902, of 12 heifers 10 had calves which 

 grew horns. This is a decidedly larger proportion of horns 

 than usually appears in the progeny of either of the Scotch 

 Polls when mated with horned cows ; but they were mostly 

 "scurs," and many of them without horn-core attachments. 

 One calf of a Highland cow had two white feet. The same 

 bull on a black Kerry heifer produced a black bull calf with 

 scurs, but by a red Dexter the calf was red and polled. 



J. W. Lee, of Meigs, County Ohio, reports : " I had 

 sixteen Shorthorns and a few grade cows, which I bred 

 to the Red Polled bull ' Glenmore.' The calves were the 

 finest that had ever been dropped on my farm up to that 

 time. They were all red in colour, uniform in style and 

 shape, and all muleys, from horned cows of all colours. In 

 this 1 8 head of calves, 13 were heifers, which averaged at 

 twelve months old 1000 Ibs. The bull calves, when sold, 

 averaged 100 Ibs. for each month of their age." 



It has been demonstrated that steers of about eighteen 

 months, put up after grazing to feed off, will grow till about 

 two years old, and finish rapidly in prime condition, making 



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