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estate in Hertfordshire. 13315 Clarissa W3 was noteworthy and 

 of general repute as a competitor. Her dam, 6246 Chrissy, as the 

 records show, was "a good milker." Clarissa began her career at 

 Whitlingham with a high promise. This was more than fulfilled un- 

 der the new conditions, which brought a milk yield of from 11,118 

 Ib. in 332 days to 13,577 Ib. in 328 days. She was then sold, and it is 

 not unlikely that she had to pay the all too common dairyman's pen- 

 alty the being sold to kill when she had given a year or two's hand- 

 some profit. One looks in vain for any other result, by registration 

 of Clarissa's births. 



Both 18179 Mona W3, of the same family as Clarissa, but of 

 another line of breeding, and her dam, 17171 Minnie, made their 

 records in a more favorable environment than that in which their 

 predecessors lived. Minnie's record, it will be seen from the tran- 

 script was very good. Mona's began in 1905, under yet more favor- 

 able conditions, in Longford Castle herd, a few miles northwest of 

 Salisbury, and near to a small river. Mona's milk yields are set 

 out in detail in the transcript of the W Group. In the same herd 

 there are many Red Polled, representing all that are now known 

 of an old-time good High Suffolk family, V17. Their many records 

 demonstrate the great progress attendant on careful breeding, with 

 the equally desirable care in the matter of feeding. A few miles 

 further up the river the Heytesbury herd, as the transcript of milk 

 records evidence, also well demonstrates the outcome of a Western 

 land environment. 



An equally well known excellent result followed the transference 

 of 13767 Linda 3d P4 from Whitlingham to Acton Reynold some 

 seven miles north of Shrewsbury, and of 16483 Desiree of Johns- 

 town P4 from southern Ireland to the same herd. And just as 

 marked is the effect of the South Coast lands environment demon- 

 strated by the Cheriton herd milk records. 



"A TYPE OF FARMER'S COW." 



The question of feeding the Red Polled cow, so as to give its due 

 place to the milk-yielding inheritance, demands a few words. A 

 good many years ago, Red Polled taken to Cheshire and to York- 

 shire East Riding, did not give satisfaction. Enquiry brought out 

 the fact that they had been so fed as to develop the beef -making 

 inheritance, the owners not knowing, what more than one East Anglian 

 herd owner had proved, that two Shorthorn cows in their Norfolk 

 and Suffolk climature to use Wm. Marshall's quaint term required 

 as much food as did three Red Polled. This assertion is corrobor- 

 ated by a communication addressed to the "Li 'e Stock Journal" in 

 the autumn of 1915 by the owner of some Mayo farm land, who 

 signed himself "B." In it he said: 



. "In my own scheme a native cow, but a particularly good one, 

 was put to a pure Red Poll. The calf came a heifer, and I made this 

 the foundation for further improvement by the Shorthorn generation 

 after generation. The result is a plump type of Shorthorn, but enor- 

 mously more productive in proportion to cost, stronger in constitu- 

 tion, easier to feed, easier to sell, earlier to mature, quite as high in 

 quantity of milk, and much higher in butter. The yearling bulls are 

 sold at nearly twice the price of my neighbors/ which have cost 

 more to raise them, and I can sell them all without leaving home. 

 The chief representative of this family is now in the Dairy Herd 

 Book (Polly 2d, No. 2365). A red cow well horned, near the ground, 

 always fat, a fine milker, and 25 per cent above the requirement in 



