1887] Flornless Ruminants. 1083 
a the half-breed crossed with Scotch and Devon, for veal and beef 
_ of fine quality.’ Here, as generally throughout Herts, the Suf- 
_ folk cows were regarded as the best milkers. He also states that 
= “Lord Grimston has the Spotted Polled breed from Mr. Mundy, 
__ of Derbyshire, and approves of the sort greatly.” These Derby- 
shire Spotted Polls may have been descendants of the white wild 
cattle of that district of which Mr. Storer * speaks. 
~ Among Herefords and Short-horns—Mr. William Housman, the 
_ well-known English authority on live-stock matters, has written: 
of the head; and I have seen similar ‘scurs’ and top-knots on 
= Several female short-horns. In the case of all the short-horns 
‘Snot a long one. Unless we take for granted an inseparable 
Correlation of sugar-loaf skull and tufted head with the lack of 
is, we can scarcely suppose these cases to be original panei 
The thick top-knot and the pointed ridge of the skull wot 
to bear evidence of a polled ancestor, to whose soc i 
other particulars than the mere absence of horns, the anima 
Mr. A. B. Allen, of New York, the well-known authority, 
commenting on Mr. Housman’s remarks, said,— 
~T have seen an occasional superb specimen of what neem 
a muley short-horn in Northumberland, Englan . y 
the are thousands upon thousands of polled cows already 
z United States.” ` 
The late Charles Stevenson, who was a juror at the 1857 Paris 
“national Exhibition, states that “ one bull was | 
~ aged short-horn class, color white, whose head em 
small round knobs, not exceeding two inches in diameter. 
1 Wild White Cattle of Great Britain. 
- # National Live Stock Journal, October, 1882. 
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