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adapted to hilly regions. Some of these have made 

 splendid butter records from 500 to over 700 pounds of 

 butter in a year. We should have great -hopes of them 

 for the mountainous sections of our country; but as yet 

 importation and breeding of this stock is not extensive 

 enough to permit of their availability to any considerable 

 extent for dairy purposes. 



POLLED. 



The polled or hornless cattle are great favorites with 

 some of the Western people, and an effort is made to get 

 up a boom on them. But they not only lack in numbers, 

 but in the essential quality of a large flow of milk, or of 

 a very rich one. The best information we can get does 

 not indicate usefulness for the dairy. Neither do they 

 excel several of the other breeds for beef. Their chief 

 recommend appears to be their destitution of horns, 

 which in our eye is far from a mark of beauty. It gives 

 them a sort of bald, unfinished look that is anything but 

 pleasing. We prefer, for looks, short, well-turned horns. 

 But of course, without horns there is no hooking, but 

 pushing is by no means aovided. Besides, in some cases 

 we have known a lack of horns to make it difficult to 

 fasten the animals in stanchions or with ropes. This 

 may not be true of the cows ; but we were cognizant of 

 an instance on the ISTew York State Fair grounds where 

 a polled bull was constantly getting loose. His neck was 

 so thick tlfat he could slip his head through anyplace 

 not tight enough to choke him. As to disposition, we 

 presume the lack of horns would not make the bulls any 



