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great commodity of the inhabitants are vented into all parts 

 of England, nay into Germanie, France, and Spaine also, as 

 Pantaleon, the Phisitian writeth, who stucke not to compare 

 these of ours, for colour and tast both, with those of Placen- 

 tia." * And Speed, who wrote in 1676, thus speaks of the 

 productions of the same part of England : " The commodi- 

 ties of this shire are many and great, whereof the chiefest 

 consist in corn, cattle, cloth, pasturage, woods, sea-fish and 

 fowle ; and as Abbo Floricensis hath depainted, This country 

 is of green and passing fresh hue, pleasantly replenished 

 with orchards, gardens, and groves : Thus he described it 

 above six hundred years since, and now we find as he hath 

 said ; to which we may add their gain from the pail." | 

 These notices suffice to shew that it is long since a breed of 

 cattle suited to the uses of the dairy had been established in 

 the county of Suffolk. Some, judging from the absence of 

 horns, and the size and general aspect of the animals, have 

 imagined that the Polled Suffolk is a variety of the Galloway 

 breed of Scotland, introduced into this part of England by 

 the long intercourse between the Scotch breeders and the 

 Suffolk and Norfolk graziers. The Polled Suffolk, however, 

 has as much the characteristics of a distinct native breed as 

 the Galloway itself. The individuals differ from the Gallo- 

 ways in the colour of the skin and hair, in the muscular de- 

 velopment of the neck and shoulders, which are naturally 

 large in the Galloway, but thin in the Polled Suffolk, in the 

 smaller depth of the ribs, and in the superior milking pro- 

 perties of the females. 



The Polled Suffolk breed is regarded as hardy to the de- 

 gree of bearing careless treatment* and subsisting on in- 

 different food ; and the cows are noted, as in former times, 

 for the large quantity of milk which they yield, in proportion 

 to their size and the food consumed. It is this property 



* Camden's Britannia, translated newly into English by Philemon Holland, 

 Doctour in Physick 1610. 



t Speed's Theatre of the Emph-e of Great Britain. 



