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most difficult to get sucli facts, though they are most useful for pur- 

 poses of comparison. The two following records will, however, partially 

 serve this end : 



Mr. A. Taylor's Bed-Polled steer, first prize at the Smithfield Club 

 Show, 1881 (aged three years seven months, sire Norfolk, dam Suffolk), 

 had a recorded live weight of 17 cwt., 1 qr., 1 Ib. Its dead weight 

 was 91 stone, 6 pounds (1,280 pounds), a percentage of 66.74 of the live 

 weight. The same exhibitor's heifer (aged three years, one month, 

 three weeks) had a live weight of 13 cwt., 3 qrs., 14 Ibs. Its dead 

 weight was 72 stone, 7 pounds, a percentage of 65.31 of the live weight. 



Mr. J. J. Colman's prize cow, Fannie (aged ten years, three and a half 

 months), which had produced five calves, had a live weight of 17 cwt., 

 22 Ibs., and was sold by public auction at Ipswich at a sum which 

 equaled 4.375d. per pound, calculated on the live weight. 



The dead weight of a three-year nine-months old Norfolk steer, shown 

 at Norwich in 1878, by the Prince of Wales, was 80 stone, 4 pounds ; 

 of Mr. A. Taylor's three-year ten-months old steer, first-prize winner 

 at the same show, 111 stone, 12 pounds. 



This record is nearly equaled by that of a bull of Mr. Lofft's breed- 

 ing, which, when slaughtered in "fair condition only," gave a dead 

 weight of 110 stone. 



These are not mentioned as exceptional weights ; they happen to be 

 available because they were recorded at the tiino of slaughter. 



Portraits of Red Polls. Davyson 3d 48, the bull shown in the illus- 

 tration, was bred by Mr. John Hammond of Bale, East Dereham; was 

 sold as a two-year-old to Mr. J. Foster Palmer, and was subsequently 

 bought at auction by Mr. W. A. Tyssen Amherst, M. P., at 205 guineas. 

 He was calved in August, 1873, being of the Davy (HI) tribe, and 

 sired by a bull of Powell blood, as was his dam. He was the reserve at 

 the Norfolk show of 1875, and since that year has never been beaten at 

 a royal or county show, winning sixteen first prizes and six cups. 

 Dolly (No. 2), calved November 3, 1879, the older of the two females in 

 the illustration, was in Mr. Colman's cup collection in 1881, and again 

 in 1882. In each year she was first in her class, and last year she also 

 won the cup offered for the best Red-Polled cow or heifer at the Nor- 

 folk show. She is a heavy-fleshed animal, inheriting that character- 

 istic from her great-great-granddam, Minnie, the foundress of aNecton 

 tribe, and herself the daughter of tho Red-Polled bull which won first 

 prize at the Norwich Royal in 1849. This Minnie- tribe realizes high 

 prices, and is, as a rule, very gqod both for milk and for flesh. The 

 sire of Dolly, and also of the other female in the illustration, was Rufus, 

 a bull of Powell's famous Rose tribe, bred by the late Lord Spndes. 



Silent Lady (O 9), calved December 18, 1880, the yearling heifer 

 shown in the illustration, was also in Mr. Col man's cup collection of 

 1882. She traces back to one of Sir E. Kerrison's grand cows a 

 superior milker. 



Milk yield of Red Polls. Mr. E wen recently gave a daily return of 

 the milk yield of one cow, extending over eight months, and the monthly 

 averages of four others in the Didlington House Farm herd. The cow, 

 Davy 27th, whose daily record is given, is of the same tribe as Davy 24th, 

 whose average yield for seven months was stated in the Almanac of the 

 Live Stock Journal to have been 42 pints per day. Davy 27th was se- 

 lected by Mr, Ewen to test the question of the value of the Gu6non 

 escutcheon theory as applicable to Red-Polled stock. She was fed in 

 the ordinary Norfolk fashion, in common with the cattle in the large herd 



