POLLED DURHAM CATTLE 



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these cases are rare and this great weight is not desirable. 

 Good cows weigh from 1400 to 1600 pounds. 



THE POLLED DURHAM 



The Polled Durham breed of beef cattle have the charac- 

 teristics of the Shorthorns, but are without horns. There 

 are two distinct t\pes : the Double Standard and the Single 

 Standard Polled Durhams. The Double Standards were ob- 

 tained by saving for breeding purposes hornless Shorthorn 

 " freaks " which occasionally appeared. The Single Stand- 

 ard resulted from the efforts of various men to produce 

 hornless cattle that possessed the tj-'pe of the Shorthorn. 

 Both the Single and Double Standard Polled Durhams can 

 be recorded in the Polled Durham herd book, and the Double 

 .Standard Polled Durhams can be recorded in the Shorthorn 

 herd book as well, because they are pure bred Shorthorns 

 according to the generally accepted definition of the term. 



Fig. 32. — Polled Durham bull. 



