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shown in the illustration.* This cow, on winter feed, gave 37 pints of 

 milk per day, eight weeks after calving. In May, when the cows were 

 at grass very poor herbage, growing on a marsh I tested the quality 

 of the milk, using for the purpose Heeren's milk tester, the "pioskop" 

 of the Hanover Vulcanite Company. The milk was drawn on to the 

 pioskop direct from the udder, -when milking had been half done. Si- 

 lent Lass, five mouths after calving, yielded milk which contained more 

 fatty particles than are found in rich milk as marked on the tester. 

 Even the first milk drawn from the udder of Dolly, six months after 

 calving, was "normal" according to the tester, and her average yield 

 was very rich, as was also the yield of the other cows tested, Rosa (P 3), 

 seven months after calving, and Rosebud 2d (K 17), nine months after 

 calving. 



Mr. Garrett Taylor's large herd at Whitlingham, near Norwich, is kept 

 exclusively for the supply of milk to customers in the city. The cafes, 

 which have a large demand for the article, have familiarized the public 

 with the fact that the milk of the Red-Polled cattle is exceptionally rich. 

 One of the Whitlingham cows, on winter feed, five weeks after calving, 

 gave 32 pints of milk per day ; another, 27 pints. 



Mr. B. Stimpson, of Morton, reported two of his cows, on winter feed, 

 as yielding daily, Cheerful, ten weeks after calving, 30 pints of iniik, and 

 Silky, six weeks after calving, 26 pints. The butter made from their 

 milk amounted to 14J pounds per week. 



A four-year old cow of the Eaton strain, in Mr. J. F. Rogers 7 herd, at 

 Swanington, yielded, five weeks after calving, on very poor food hay, 

 pulped swedes, and cut straw, with 3 pounds of decorticated cotton 

 cake 28 pints of milk per day. His herd of seven cows (six Red-Polled 

 and one Shorthorn) produced in the year ending September 30, 1882, 

 1,435 pounds of butter, which, with milk sold amounting to 11 18d. 10a., 

 made the total return 118 I5d. 3s. 



A return of the test of two cows of theGlemham strain (Mr.Moseley's), 

 already mentioned (in Mr. J. M. Spink's herd, Harpley), gave 53 pints 

 of milk as ihe yield per day on winter feed, and 23 pounds 2 ounces 01 

 butter per week. 



Red-Polled cattle are found to lay on flesh rapidly on pasture of the 

 poorest character, where other breeds need to have an additional sup- 

 ply of richer food. The dry temperature of Norfolk and the poor pas- 

 ture seem more particularly to have had their effect on the size of the 

 stock. The first cross stock sired by a Red-Polled bull, no matter oi 

 what horned breed is the dam, is usually red in color and polled in char- 

 acter. Such animals when fat are eagerly bought by the butcher. I 

 have recently seen a number of such cross-breeds, the produce of a Red- 

 Polled bull and a pure-bred Jersey cow, and am told the cross is an ex- 

 cellent one. Some of the animals have a few silver hairs mixed with 

 the red coat ; all were polled and all had black noses. 



The chief hindrance to the extension of the breed exists in the scarcitj 

 of the stock which has in great measure arisen from the fact of rinder- 

 pest having a few years ago been fatal to a large proportion of the cattle 

 then in the more noteworthy herds. Fashion also had a marked effect- 

 Shorthorns and Devons were at one time in such favor that polled cat. 



"The yearling in the illustration is the "Silent Lady," not tho "Silent Lass," and, 

 accord;:;; to Mr. Long, was calved on the 18th of December, 1880, and was conse- 

 quently only about four years old at the date on which his report was written. 11 

 would therefore appear as if the "Silent Lass" here referred to is another than the 

 cow " Si'ent Lady" shown as a yearly in the illustration, or that an error has beer 

 committed in tho age as well as in the name. (Note by the Department.) 



