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prominent poll. The hide is loose, mellow and pliable 

 even though of medium thickness, and the hair coat is 

 fine, though abundant. The color is some shade of red, 

 the cherry red being preferable to either the lighter or the 

 darker shades. White is permissible in the switch, on 

 the udder or along the under line as far as the navel only. 

 The udder is usually well developed for so beefy a cow, 

 but it lacks balance, the forequarters frequently being 



FIG. 119. A Milking Short-horn cow. 



deficient, and it is often of the pendant sort with large 

 teats. The veins and wells are proportionately well 

 developed. 



The tendency, already noted, for dual-purpose cattle 

 to deviate to one or the other extremes is responsible for 

 a lack of uniformity in the type of the Red Polled. They 



