RED POLLED CATTLE. Milk Records. The Red Polled Society 

 of Great Britain and Ireland was formed in 1888. Its regulations, 

 formulated in 1899, recognise the dual-purpose qualities of the breed, 

 and provide for the keeping of complete private milk-records of all 

 the cows in a herd and for judging of both milking quality and 

 general appearance. The breed is more noted for abnormally pro- 

 longed periods of lactation than for a very high average yield of 

 milk and butter. The old herd of Mr. R. Harvey Mason, Necton 

 Hall (43 cows, including 14 heifers), has yielded in one year an 

 average of 203-12 pounds of butter fat the best cow giving 4-41 

 per cent, of butter fat and yielding a total of 369-82 Ib. The best 

 heifer gave 10,396 Ib. of milk containing 353*79 Ib. of butter fat. 

 After her third and last calf dropped in 1890 the cow Crocus during 

 a period of nine years and four months yielded 50427 Ib. of milk, 

 with 4-3 per cent, of butter fat during the last five years. 



Lord Rothschild's herd of 37 cows gave in one year an average 

 of 7 007 Ib. of milk, and the best animal, Rosette, an average of 

 9 508 Ib. per annum for 10 years. 



Beef Production. Steer put up to finish at about two years old, 

 when they have stopped rapid growth, fatten quickly, and their car- 

 casses command the highest prices in the London market. 



The meritorious character of the breed, extending to the three 

 qualities of colour .of hair, milking, and flesh production, singles it 

 out for the increasing favour of foreign and colonial buyers, when 

 the steadily developing qualities are better known. The improve- 

 ment in the quality in recent years has been remarkable, and Red 

 Polls are steadily growing in popular favour. 



THE ABERDEEN-ANGUS. Origin of the Breed. -The Aberdeen- 

 Angus breed, now widely distributed over Great Britain and Ireland, 

 hails from the north-eastern counties of Aberdeen and Forfar, and 

 parts of the adjoining counties. The existence of black cattle 

 without horns was recorded in Aberdeen and Banff in 1523, and 

 at the end of last century about half of the superior cattle of the 

 rich-soiled district of Buchan were polled. That district, indeed, 

 is accredited with the possession, from time immemorial, of a large 

 and a small polled breed, both with superior milking qualities. 



Milking Properties. The milk is of superior quality, but the 

 quantity is below the standard of a dairy breed, this matter having 

 been neglected, as the calves were permitted to suck their dams. 



Value for Beef Production. The Aberdeen-Angus is in the front 

 rank of beef-producing breeds in the United Kingdom. It occupies 



