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nervous than Shorthorns, but are not enough so to offer any 

 important objection to the breed. 



The weight of Red Polled cattle is medium, not equaling the 

 heavy beef breeds, although heavy specimens occur. For exam- 

 ple, the bull Patriarch 6482 U43 weighed at full maturity as 

 high as 2600 pounds. The show bull Demon 5421 Ai, owned 

 by the Ohio State University, weighed 2100 pounds in his best 

 form. Pando 1254, 1 13, the well-linown bull imported by Cap- 

 tain V. T. Hills of Ohio, weighed, when five years old, 2270 

 pounds. Wild Roy 1105, Vi, also impoEted by Captain Hills, 

 at five years weighed 2480 pounds. A range of from 1800 to 

 2200 pounds will apply to typical mature, males of the breed. 

 Cows weigh from iioo to 1600 pounds, or even more, 1250 to 

 1 300 being a fair average. 



Red Polled cattle as beef producers hold very good rank. 

 While as a rule they do not win the highest honors in open 

 competition in the great beef show rings, they feed to a point 

 of profitable production for the stockman, and make a very good 

 class of beef for the consumer. This beef is not usually so fat 

 as that produced by some breeds, the outside of the frame not 

 being so heavily covered. Red Polled steers also tend to be 

 somewhat long of leg. Numerous cases may be cited to show 

 that the steers gain rapidly and show well. At the 1889 Smith- 

 field Club Show two Red Polled two-year-old steers showed 

 the largest daily gain of anything on exhibition of that class, 

 viz, 2.18 and 2.29 pounds each. One of these afterwards was 

 made champion as the best steer on exhibition at the Norfolk 

 Fat Stock Show. At the Smithfield show in 1890 a Red Polled 

 steer dressed 73.72 per cent, the highest per cent dressed out 

 at the show. In 1899 the London and Norwich Red Polled 

 breed cup winner at 32 months weighed 1708 pounds, showing 

 a gain for the year of 452 pounds, or 35.98 per cent. The 

 reserve for the breed cup was a heifer that at 863 days had a 

 live weight of 1436 pounds. In 1900 the cup winner at both 

 of the above shows was a heifer weighing 1578 pounds at 33^ 

 months. At the International Live Stock Exposition at Chi- 

 cago in 1904 the Red Polled steer Pompy, in the two-year-old 

 class, weighed 1680 pounds alive, and showed a dressed weight 



