1 62 THE STUDY OF BREEDS. 



(d) Deficient heart girth is to be guarded against. 



(e) Underline, nearly straight. 



(8) Hirld quarters Long, deep and wide. 



(a) Straight rather than full. 



(b) Thighs of medium development. 



(c) Buttock, straight, square, rather than rounded. 



(d) Pin bones, wide, but not prominent. 



(e) Twist, medium. 



(f) Escutcheon, wide and pronounced. 



(g) Tail, long and fine rather than coarse. 



(9) Udder Capacious, not high nor pendulous and nicely 

 quartered. 



(a) Not fleshy, but glandular. 



(b) Unduly large teats to be guarded against. 



(10) Milk Veins Large, coming well forward, branched 

 and milk wells well defined. 



(n) Skin Medium in fineness, pliant, flexible and unc- 

 tuous and covered with soft hair. 



(12) Legs Medium in length, fine rather than coarse, 

 clean and placed wide apart. 



III. General Outline Red Polls are a neat, 

 trim and active breed of cattle, with clean cut outline 

 and much uniformity of color. 



IV. Compared with Shorthorns. 



(1) Red Polls are considerably smaller, somewhat less 

 angular, and less broad throughout. 



(2) They are somewhat finer in head, neck and limb. 



(3) They have more marked development of milk veins, 

 and 



(4) The differences in horn development and in color. 



