informed that I was preparing an essay on the progressive develop- 

 ment of the breed in its several aspects, readily assented to the Club's 

 aiding its issue, in print a resolution for which I most heartily thank 

 them. 



Four and twenty years ago it needed a protest, through an in- 

 fluential live stock journal, to compel an American official to do jus- 

 tice. A few men had sent their Red Polled cattle to Chicago to com- 

 pete in a Farmer's Cow class. The upholders of some other breeds 

 manifestly sought to kill rivalry, and hoped to do so by ignoring the 

 new-comers. But the truth had to be made known from the "misplaced" 

 papers on which was the noting of points by the judges. In the fol- 

 lowing year the trick was more cleverly arranged. And from the 

 year 1903 there has been no Farmer's Cow class. That "taboo" was 

 the determination would seem to be evidenced by records of tests 

 and experimental trials made in the United States and in the Domin- 

 ion of Canada. But the couple of sentences quoted above, from Prof. 

 Eckles, show that the lowly men who knew their business have held 

 on their way, and have won in the contest. The Jean Du Luth Farm 

 managers have also set a much-needed example by their resolve, as 

 from Jan., 1911, to make whole-herd records, and to systematize the 

 teats for Advanced Registry. It is an unquestionable fact that the 

 Red Polled has come to stay, with Dual-Purpose written on the breed's 

 banners. So much for America. 



On this side the Atlantic one regrets to say there has been much 

 less determination to uphold a good cause. From the year 1891 

 three years after the Red Polled Society was formed and acquired 

 the Herd Book the Council, recognizing that the inherited qualities 

 of the cow as a milk and butter producer was a matter of great im- 

 portance in the selection of a bull, not only printed the milk records 

 without any charge to the owner of the herd, but also issued separately 

 the pages containing the records, with live weights of fatted steers 

 and heifers, as the best means of advertising the merits of the Red 

 Polled. This was the practice until the close of the 1907 record. For 

 some time past, however, an advertising rate has been charged for 

 the publication of the year's milk; and there is no record of the live 

 weights of cattle at the Norwich and Smithfield Club shows. "Dublin 

 Castle" controllers of aided agriculture in Ireland have from the be- 

 ginning of their muddling not cared to know of the existence of the 

 Red Polled. A Co. Mayo breeder quoted in this essay has made that 

 plain. English officialism has copied "Dublin Castle." It knows noth- 

 ing of the facts and figures which are presumably the base of a farm 

 economy that is to be an advantage to the community as well as a 

 profit to the land cultivator. It has refused tp acknowledge the "Red 

 Poll" Society when it asked to have its 30 years old systematic milk 

 recording recognized, as it recognizes much more recent and less 

 complete plans. And by other devices there would seem to be an 

 endeavor to foster the interests of a section at the cost of the mass, 



