THE UNITED KINGDOM. 1G3 



Red-Polled cattle are found to lay on flesli rapidly on pasture of the 

 poorest quality where other breeds would require an additional supply 

 of richer food. The dry temperature of their native home and the poor 

 pasture seein more particularly to have their effect on the size of the 

 stock. 



As graceful as the Devon, the Eed-Polled has the additional advan- 

 tage of being hornless, in itself no little gain where horses also run in 

 the pastures, or where the stock sent to market have to make a long 

 journey by railway, boat, or road. 



The first herd-book was issued in 1874. 



The color and description of the breed, agreed upon by breeders in the 

 autumn of 1873 : 



The color red, but tlio udder may be white. The extension of the white of the 

 udder a few inches along the inside 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 of the breed, or answer all other 

 essentials of the standard description. 



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



The following are the points for 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 con- 

 tract a little above the eye and should terminate in a comparatively 

 narrow prominence at the summit of the head. In all other particulars 

 the commonly accepted points of a superior animal are taken as apply- 

 ing to Eed-Polled cattle. Clean, thin, short legs; a clean throat with 

 little dewlap; a springing rib, with large carcass; a large udder, loose 

 and creased when empty; milk veins very large and rising in knotted 

 puffs to the eye, are points in a good Ked-Polled cow. 



Age at maturity : t Four years. 



How long bred pure: Ono hundred years. 



Annual average pounds of milk : 11,250 pounds. 



Milfc to pounds of butter : 35 pounds to 1 pound butter. 



Labor: Little. 



Method of housing : In pasture. 



Feeding: Grass, carrots, and beet roots, turnips and cake. 



Breeding : Commence at two years. 



Grasses: Clover and rj e grass ; no timothy. 



