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Report of the Live-Stock 
NOEFOLK AND SUFFOLK POLLED. 
In this breed again the Judges have copiously annotated the 
prize-list. The cattle share with the Angus the recent improve- 
ment in value caused by American demand ; an item of profit 
in the coming year likely to be increased by the good American 
harvest. What has been said of the importance of preserving 
in the Devon the look of a high-bred caste does not apply 
to the red-polled breed. This is to be a milker first : and a 
good carcass afterwards. It is happily free from any necessity 
to keep up appearances. It is of the hedge-row and the com- 
mon ; and, like Beranger's hero, avowedly " low." But it may 
be one of the most serviceable of drudges. It can live on coarse 
herbage, defy wind and flies, and yet get flesh and give milk. 
It would be a pity to sacrifice these essentials to a shade of red 
more or less intense, or to a neatness of form more or less 
complete. Mr. Hammond's bull is as neat as he can be : and 
his heifer calf was marked on the first day in the Catalogue 
" one of the prettiest things in the ring." Yet it may be 
doubted, unless much and good milk be provided to co-exist 
with these attractions, if either of these be the best type to 
uphold. Not of late years — but a century ago — breeders of 
large flat-sided polled cattle existed in the county. The por- 
trait of a bull of this breed is given in Mr. Storer's book, 
copied from a picture at Gunton. The colours were mixed, 
but they were all polled, all hardy, and all milkers. It would 
be at least as good an aim to set before one (as Mr. Lofft 
seems to have done), to recall, as far as possible, these pecu- 
liarities for the rising breed of the Eastern counties, as it is 
to endeavour to create a race which shall simply be a dis- 
horned Devon. There once were polled cattle in Devonshire ; 
was a cross from these introduced into Norfolk, when Devons 
were in fashion there ? 
Beport of the Judges on Norfolk and Suffolk Polled. 
In these classes also we noticed a marked improvement. Hardy, hornless, 
excellent milkers and good graziers, the Polled Eeds are gaining ground. 
With the 34 entries — 5 less than the Sussex breeders sent, and 10 short of the 
Devons — the Council find their efforts to bring out the breed well resjwnded 
to by the Eastern counties. 
There were eight Old Bulls shown in Class 81 ; but the animal which has 
been winning in the home circuit was excluded by one year's age. There is a 
great uniformity of character among them ; they have now for many years 
been carefully bred ; and, thanks to Mr. Euren of the Norioicli Mercury, three 
volumes of a well guarded herd-book have been published, whilst a fourth is 
in preparation. The bulls selected for prizes were excellent specimens of 
the breed. Mr. Hammond's " Davyson 7th " took first prize, beating Mr. 
Colman's " King Charles." The former is a very neat true-made bull, with 
