Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stoch at Noncich. 693 
Red Polled. 
It was confidently expected that the breeders of the IVorfolk 
and Suffolk Red Polled cattle would make a special effort to 
place their favourites before the public in as favourable a light 
as possible ; but the most sanguine of East Anglians could not 
for one moment have imagined that so grand a collection of 
Red Polls could have been possible. The improvement made 
during the past few years in the style, substance, and quality of 
the animals, as well as the advance towards uniformity of type, 
is within measurable distance of the marvellous. No stronger 
proof of this can be desired or given than is to be found in the 
fact that the Judges (all three of whom are keen men of business 
and thoroughly practical) commended in its entirety the Class 
of Cows with its thirty entries. Such an event as this is almost 
unknown and but very seldom deserved. 
Twelve Aged Bulls w^ere entered ; the first in his class and the 
Champion bull of the breed was Falstaff," a grand animal of 
ten summers, who still moved with the greatest possible freedom, 
and whose masculine character and great substance with fine 
quality marked him out as one of the best bulls of the breed 
which had ever been exhibited. It was no disgrace to ]Mr. J. J. 
Colman's " Don Carlos " to play second fiddle to " Falstaff ; " the 
fight might have been a trifle closer had "Don Carlos" not 
shown signs of being over-done, and a slight want of masculine 
character. Mr. A. Taylor's " Passion," first at the Preston 
Royal, had to be content with the reserved and highly com- 
mended tickets. This bull has not improved during the last 
year. 
Although there were only three exhibits in the Class for Bulls 
calved in the year 1883, yet so highly did the Judges esteem 
the merits of the trio, that they asked that a third prize should 
be awarded, a request which was complied with. The first- 
prize bull, which also held the distinguished honour of being 
reserved for the Champion prize, is a son of one of the most 
celebrated Norfolk Polled sires, " Davyson 12 th," and was bred 
by his exhibitor, INIr. VV. A. Tyssen-Amherst. The second 
prize went to a deep-fleshed bull bred and shown by Mr. T. 
Brown. 
The Bulls calved in the year 1884 were not particularly notice- 
able for excellence, whilst from the twenty-one Yearling Bulls 
it would have been possible to select some very promising 
animals, and mayhap a few not likely to be retained as sires. 
Air. J. J. Colman's " lago," placed first in the class, was a very 
neat and stylish calf, perhaps slightly deficient in masculine 
