150 THE CATTLE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



wisely determined to keep him in active service at home, he has 

 thns when shown been in somewhat low condition. 



As might have been anticipated, the largest and best lot of 

 Eed Polled cattle ever got together in a showyard appeared at 

 the Eoyal, at Norwich, July, 1886, where no less than 144 males 

 and females competed for the handsome prizes given by the 

 E.A.S.E. and local donors. The champion bull and cow 

 illustrate this paper, and speak for themselves. [We take 

 this opportunity of acknowledging our indebtedness to the 

 proprietors of the Live Stock Journal for the use of their 

 blocks for these pictures.] The bull Falstaff (303), at 

 10| years, looked "as fresh as a four-year-old." This grand 

 animal, " the bull of the century," so far, was bred by the 

 Eev. A. Gr. Legge, vicar of this parish (Elmham, Norfolk), 

 sire Eufus (188), bred by the late Lord Sondes, dam Fairy 

 Bradfield (891), bought by Mr. Legge from a tenant on the 

 Elmham estate, the late Fisher Bradfield, who for very many 

 years occupied an adjoining farm to that held by " Old " Money 

 Griggs for upwards of eighty years on the same estate. Falstaff 

 was bought, when a calf, from Mr. Legge by the present writer, 

 but is now at the head of the largest herd of Eed Polls extant, 

 that of Mr. Garrett Taylor, of Trowse House, Norwich, who is 

 the happy possessor of some two hundred head, half of which 

 are milch cows, getting to be " as like as two peas." 



The first exportation of Eed Polls to the U.S.A. occurred in 

 the year 1873. As may be judged by the number of herds now 

 in existence in the States, a considerable export trade has been 

 going on since. Our American cousins see in this a breed 

 combining milk and beef production — milk not thin and watery 

 like that of one at least of the breeds they have gone in for, and 

 beef of superlative excellence. 



In closing tliese notes I would impress upon my brother 

 breeders to keep the milking properties well in view. This may 

 be done by selection, by early breeding from heifers, by allowing 

 the herd plenty of fresh air and exercise — not by coddling and 

 over-feeding — aim at cows giving their 401b. to 501b. of milk per 

 diem five to six months after calving — there are plenty that do 

 it, and their number may, with care, be added to. 



