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RED POLLED CATTLE. 



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" Norfolk Red Polls," is by some held to be the original breed of this 

 county ; by others to be the result of crossing with the polled Galloway 

 cattle, large numbers of which, a hundred years ago, were imported 

 into Norfolk. It would appear, however, from records recently dis- 

 entombed from amidst the many connected with the county, that there 

 was a true native breed or race of cattle having some of the peculiarities 

 of the present breed. This original or county breed, if such it was, had, 

 as the favourite colour, a deep blood-red for the body, with a white or 

 a mottled face. They, however, had horns, but these were small, or 

 at least middle-sized, and clean cut. . The body was small-boned, but 

 with good round barrel, set on short legs " well loined and thin 



Fig. 12. Red Polled Cow, "Emblem" (2782). 



Winner of the Champion Prize given by the Red Polled Society for the best female in the 

 Red Polled classes, at the Jubilee Show of the Eoyal Agricultural Society of England, 

 Windsor, 1889. Bred and exhibited by Mr. W. A. Tyssen-Amherst, M.P. (Lord Amherst), 

 of Didlington Hall, Brandon, Norfolk. 



thighed." The head was fine. This breed fattened well, taking 

 on meat eventy, and finishing off at three years as freely as other 

 breeds at four and five. It was hardy, and a favourite with the grazier 

 and butcher. The present breed is comely, shapely, docile, and most 

 valuable, without horns, and of a deep red colour. 



The "Suffolk Polled Cattle," known frequently as the "Suffolk 

 Duns," has, so far as their history can be traced, been a polled breed 

 from the earliest period in the history of the count}^. The colours 

 usually met with are light dun (hence the above name), red and white, 

 or yellow and white. The hair is fine and silky, the skin thin. The 

 cows are excellent milkers, the head in some being very fine, and the 

 general outline showing indications of thorough breeding. 



The steers have, on the whole, good form, the chines and back good ; 



