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ord, 8,657^4 Ib. (294). Breed Analysis: N. 428.71, S. 68.16, RP. 503.12 

 6267's 10116 Cosy 3d, total, 31,029% Ib. (1518); 4807 Carlista 2d by 

 lago 1025-lst c.-6,446% Ib. (321); 10-yr. av., 7,726 Ib. (3,100); high- 

 est record, 10,086 Ib., fat 5.2 (301). 14712 Cono-lst c. gave 11,486% 

 Ib. July llth, 1901, to October 29th, 1903, 833 days, and before her 

 sale in March, 1904, had-2d c.-given 2,025 Ib. (77). At the 1916 R. A. 

 S. E. Show, 21925 Russet's Belle 2d won first prize for 56.37 Ib. milk, 

 fat 14,60. 



6199 Blossom 5th, the first A5 record-lst c.-9912% Ib. (457); 

 highest records, 10,024% Ib. (350), 10,247 Ib., fat 4.4 (364); 7-yr. 

 av., 8638.89 Ib. 6199's 16190 Berlin-lst c.-8,755& Ib. (457). 7687 

 Bertie, produce of 6198 Blossom 4th-lst c-8,21.3% Ib., fat 4.1 (414). 



The Families A6 to A29 were bred by Elmham tenants. 9067 

 Nanfred A6, 6-yr. av., 7399.68 Ib.; 21277 Nettie A6, 3 calves and 

 24,444% Ib. yield; highest record, 8,724% Ib. The earliest All records 

 that of 2805 Felicity, when 12-yrs.-old, was 9,069 Ib. (280), and 9352 

 Foliage, from the same dam, 7,812 Ib. (349). 7712 Bower Branchlet 

 All, after 2d c., 8,341% Ib. (449), 3d and 4th c., 21,809% Ib. (931), 

 and in the two following years, 14,615 Ib. (522). 18182 My Lassie, 

 a gr.-dr. of 7712, gave a 3-yr. av., 6642.1 Ib. 



In 1872 Mr. Fulcher sent Elmham stock to Mr. G. F. Faber, in New 

 York State, a bull calf, two heifers in-calf, and 401 Ocean Maid 

 A12, a yearling. This first lot of the dual-purpose Red Polled for 

 breeding in the United States was supplemented in 1874 by three 

 heifers. These seven and their progeny, bred at the Ravine Wood 

 Farm, were, until 1882, the only pure-bred representatives of the 

 new breed in America. Ocean Maid was bred by a small farmer ten- 

 ant, who held to the practice in vogue for more than a century the 

 "folding" of his three cows on turnips, so that the stock was very 

 hardy, and had a heavy coat. Ocean MaM's 2d c., 1015 May, in 

 1884, gave birth to 2965 Mayflower, which was sold to Captain V. T. 

 Hills, Delaware, Ohio. He, in 1892, bred from her, by Melton Chief 

 2424, 8025 Mayflower 2d, which won a most noteworthy position in the 

 records of milk production. The programme of the Pan-American 

 Exposition, at Buffalo, New York, in 1901, provided for a Model Dairy 

 with a test of breeds of cattle, to extend from May 1st to October 

 31st. The American Red Polled Cattle Club resolved to do its part 

 in the test, but cows due to calve in April were not available. Cap- 

 tain Hills, however, undertook to send five cows. It must be said that 

 a more haphazard lot for so important a test cannot be imagined. 

 One of the cows was 13 years old, three 8 years, and ono 6, and they 

 had calved down from 42 to 70 days when the test began. Yet their 

 record for milk, butter, and increase of live weight, ranked the Red 

 Polled Cattle fifth. It is a singular fact that a copy of the Officia) 

 Report, which would give the details for each cow of the ten contest- 

 ing breeds is not available in England, and the whole instructive 

 business was well-nigh ignored by British agriculturists and dairy- 

 men. 8025 Mayflower 2d, in the particular of individual records of 

 net butter profit, came second to a Guernsey, whose record was 59.41 

 dollars. Mayflower's was 52.10. The net butter profit of the best 

 cow of the several other breeds was Jersey 50.24, Holstein 49.43, 

 Ayrshire 46.07, Shorthorn 43.91, Polled Jersey 42.80, Brown Swiss 

 41.23, French Canadian 40.63, Dutch Belted 38.02 dollars. Mayflower's 

 milk yield in the 184 days was 6,161 Ib.; estimated butter 323 Ib. The 

 Red Polled were in charge of a herdsman who was not an expert in cat- 

 tle feeding, whereas the other cows were in the care of experienced men. 

 Mayflower 2d's Breed Analysis was: N. 556.14, S. 295.82, RP. 153.0 



