94 JUDGING CATTLE 



NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK RED POLLED CATTLE. 



STANDARD DESCRIPTION — ADOPTED 1S73, AT NORWICH, ENGLAND BY 



A REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE OF BREEDERS FROM 



EACH COUNTY, PUBLISHED IN AMERICAN RED 



POLLED HERD BOOK, VOLUME I, 189I. 



ESSENTIALS. 



Color — Red ; the tip of the tail and udder may be white. The exten- 

 sion of the white of the udder a few inches along the side of the flank, 

 or a small white spot or mark on the under part of the belly by the 

 milk veins, shall not be held to disqualify an animal whose sire and 

 dam form part of an established herd, or answer all other essentials 

 of this standard description. 



Form — There should be no horns, slugs or abortive horns. 



POINTS OF A SUPERIOR ANIMAL. 



Color — A deep red, with udder of the same color, but the tip of the 

 tail may be white. Nose, not dark or cloudy. 



Form — A neat head and throat. 



A full eye. 



A tuft or crest of hair should hang over the forehead. The 

 frontal bones should begin to contract a little above the eyes and 

 should terminate in a comparatively narrow prominence at the summit 

 of the head. 



la all other particulars the commonly accepted points of a superior 

 animal to be taken as applying to the Norfolk and Suffolk red polled 

 cattle. 



