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CATTLE. 



NORFOLK POLLED CATTLE. 



Until the beginning of the last century, and for some years afier> 

 •ward, the native breed of Norfolk belonged to the middle-horns. 

 They have, however, been almost superseded by a polled breed. 



From a very early period, a great part of the Galloway cattle 

 were prepared for the Smithfield market on the pastures of Norfolk 

 and Suffolk. Some of the Galloways, accidentally, or selec:ed on 

 account of their superior form and quality, remained in Norfolk ; and 

 the farmer attempted to neutrahze and to rear in his own county a 

 breed of cattle so highly valued in the London market. To a cer- 

 tain degree he succeeded ; and thus the polled cattle gradually gained 

 upon the horned, and became so much more numerous and profitable 

 than the old sort, that they began to be regarded as the peculiar 

 and native breed of the county. 



NORFOLK COW. 



They retain much of the general form of their ancestors, the Gal- 

 loways, but not all their excellencies. They have been enlarged but 

 not improved by a southern climate and a richer soil. They are 

 usually red ; some, however, are black, or either of these colors 

 mixed with white, with a characteristic golden circle about the eye. 

 They are taller than the Gallow^ays, but thinner in the chine, flatter 

 m the ribs, longer in the legs, somewhat better milkers, of greater 

 weight when fattened, bu.^. not fattening so kindly, and the meat no* 

 quite equal in quality. 



