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extreme conditions to which the pure cattle are subjected. The 

 yield of milk, though generally small, is sufficient for the suckling 

 of a single calf by each cow. 



WEST HIGHLAND CLASSES AT THE SMITHFIELD SHOW 



1902-1911. 

 (a) Average Ages, Live Weights and Daily Increases. 



(b) Highest and Lowest Daily Increases. 



THE BED POLL. 



Origin. The Red Poll of Norfolk and Suffolk is a dual-purpose 

 breed formed about 100 years ago by blending tvvo breeds the 

 Old Red Norfolk Horned and the Polled Suffolk Duns of very 

 different type and character. The latter was a milking breed of 

 conspicuous merit and generally dun in colour, though it is on record 

 that the best milkers were "red brindled or yellowish cream- 

 coloured." The Norfolk Horned Breed had a great reputation as 

 an early-maturity grazing breed, of refined form and small size, and 

 produced some of the best beef sold in the London market ; the 

 colour was blood-red, with a white or mottled face suggesting some 

 original connection with the Hereford breed. 



Improvement of the Breed. Early last century John Reeves, 

 a farmer on Holkham Estate, and Richard England, of Binham, 

 set about blending the two very different breeds to form a " new 

 kind " of general-purpose animal. George, of Eaton, near Norwich, 

 began about the same time to collect a herd of blood-red Polled 

 Suffolks. Interchange of cattle of the improved type went on 



