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rather are mellow and elastic. Fair milk veins and wells occur ; in 

 fact, Arthur Young, over a century ago, commented on the large 

 size of the milk veins on the Suffolk cow. The quality of the 

 Red Polled may be classed as fair. 



The color of the Red Polled varies from light to dark red, a 

 medium shade being most common. The British standard of color 

 is blood red, with a deep red for preference. The American 

 standard of color, as adopted by the Red Polled Cattle Club of 

 America in 1907, is as follows : Any shade of red. The switch 

 of the tail and the udder may be white, with some white running 



forward to the navel. 

 Nose of a clear flesh 

 color. Interior of ears 

 should be of a yellow- 

 ish, waxy color. Ob- 

 jectionable features of 

 color, as based on the 

 American scale of 

 points, are an extreme 

 dark or an extreme 

 light red, and a cloudy 

 nose or one with dark 

 spots. The British as- 

 sociation objects tb any 

 extension of white in 

 front of the udder, any white on a bull except on tip of the tail, and 

 a cloudy or dark nose. A blue or black nose, any white, excepting 

 on the tip of tail, the udder, or "for a short way under the body," 

 and any other color than red disqualifies a Red Polled in England. 

 The size of the Red Polled is about medium. A number of weights 

 of well-known animals of the breed are as follows: bulls — Pando 

 1254 (mature), 2270 pounds ; Parole 19363 (at three years), 1975 

 pounds; Proctor Knot 12083 (mature), 2050 pounds; Patriarch 

 6482 (at three years), 2460 pounds; Demon 542i,anoted show bull 

 (mature), 2100 pounds; Wild Roy 1105 (mature), 2480 pounds; 

 Dasher 13481 (mature), 2130 pounds; Curies' 22d 20245 (at 

 fourteen months), 920 pounds. Cows — 24888 Pear, 1440 pounds; 

 28400 Pattie, 1500 pounds; 28991 J. D. Pear, 1400 pounds; 



Fig. 200. 10097 Chloe (Ti), second-prize Red 

 Polled cow at the International Live-Stock Expo- 

 sition, 1903. Owned by the late J. McLain Smith, 

 secretary of the Red Polled Cattle Association. 

 From photograph by the author 



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