Flornless Ruminants. 1079 
The Yorkshire Polls—It is of importance to find that there 
tists a breed of polled cattle in Yorkshire described by all the 
Grly writers. Marshall, in his “ Rural Economy,” says,— 
In the North Riding of Yorkshire, at the commencement of 
eighteenth century, the ancient black cattle were the only 
bred in the district. They resembled the present breed of 
irs of Scotland, mostly horned, but some of them hum- 
bkd. (This is his “class 2,” noted later on.) 
Culley’s supposition that they must have descended from the 
y is untenable in the face of the existence of a county 
of polled cattle of much greater antiquity than the Gal- 
y itself. I am supported here by the highest authority in 
n, among others, Mr. James Sinclair, editor of the Live 
Fournal ; 
What Culley says of the Yorkshire polls is as follows :* 
The polled or humbled cattle come next under our consider- 
well deserving of notice. We find a few of ited 
sing through different parts of England and 
the rest, I remember Lord Darlington, not many age 
d a very handsome breed of them finely globed with 
n 
Parkinson? says, — iy 
rkshire polled cattle vary from the — about 
"b Only in being without horns, epa a apea fully. 
| gs a beast, as will be explain for the pail. sce 
nS on Live Stock,” by George Culley, 1786. 
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