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polled cows and bulls are specially referred to. Money 
Griggs, of Gately, who died in 1872, in his hundredth 
year, and who had been for upwards of eighty years a 
tenant of the Elmham estate, informed Mr. Fulcher, 
when making inquiries as to the breed, that “from his 
earliest recollection Red Polled cattle had been kept in 
the neighborhood of Elmham.” 
355. History in America. — There seems little doubt 
that our so-called native muley cows are descendants, 
more or less mixed with other strains, of the Norfolk and 
Suffolk cows brought over by the early emigrants from 
that section. They have been preserved from extinction 
by the persistence of their good qualities. The persist- 
ence with which the old Suffolk traits are transmitted, 
under what would seem most adverse conditions, finds a 
striking illustration in what were known in Massachusetts 
as Jamestown cattle. In 1847, during the famine in 
Ireland, the people of Boston sent a shipload of provisions 
to that country to relieve the distress. As a slight token 
of appreciation, a Mr. Jeffries, living near Cork, presented 
to the captain a Suffolk polled heifer. She was delivered 
by him to the donors of the provisions, and was sold at 
auction for the benefit of the fund. She proved a re- 
markably fine milker, and her progeny (mostly bulls, by 
what were then known as Alderney sires) were used 
largely in the dairy herds about Boston. The progeny 
of these half-blood Suffolk bulls were nearly all hornless, 
and were so superior to the ordinary cattle of the district 
as to become noted. They were known as Jamestown 
cattle, from the name of the vessel in which the heifer 
came over. At several local fairs they were shown in 
considerable numbers. 
The first regular importation of Red Polled cattle for 
