THE .UNITED KINGDOM. 1G3 



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

 poorest quality where other breeds would require an additional supply 

 of richer food. The dry temperature of their native home and the poor 

 pasture- seem more particularly to have their effect on the size of the 

 stock. 



As graceful as the Devon, the Red-Polled has the additional advan- 

 of being hornless, in itself no little gain where horses also run in 

 ;ires,or where the stock sent to market have to make a long 

 journey by railway, boat, or road. 



The lirst herd-book was issued in 1874. 



The color and description of the breed, agreed upon by breeders in the 

 autumn of 1873 : 



The color red, but the udder may bo white. The extension of the white of the 



udder a lew inches ulon^ the, inside of the flank, or a small white spot or mark on the 



i- i:n-t of the belly oy the milk veins, shall not bo held to disqualify an animal 



<L::m form part of an established herd of the breed, or answer all other 



::-i:ird description. 

 1'ori.. !'.l be no horns, slugs, or abortive horns. 



The following are the poiuts for a superior animal: 

 Color. A deep red with udder of the same color, but the tip of the 

 t ail may be white, nose not dark or cloudy. 



Form. A. neat head and throat, a full eye, a tuft or crest of hair 

 over the forehead ; the frontal bones should begin to con- 

 a little above the eye and should terminate in a comparatively 

 narrow 'prominence at the summit of the head. In all other particulars 

 the commonly accepted points of a superior animal are taken as apply- 

 ing to Red-Polled cattle. Clean, thin, short legs; a clean throat with 

 little dewlap; n springing rib. with large carcass; a large udder, loose 

 and creased when -empty; milk veins very large and rising in knotted 

 ye, are points in a good Red-Polled cow. 



ars. 



re: Ono hundred years. 



:<nd8 of milk : 11,250 pounds. 

 .-'.In of butter : ,'jj pounds to 1 pound butter. 



t roots, tuniips and cake. 

 : Clover and rjegnua; no timothy. 



