568 Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock at Derby. 
Mr. Vickers, was put before Mr. Hodgson's " Young Oxford " 
(445), also set first at Tunbridge Wells. The same reversal 
of decision is noticed in the Old Cow Class, in wluch only five 
animals came out; as Messrs. Stanford's " Dorset 2nd," a famous 
cow of good touch and hair, very level on her back, with a long 
deep body, but a little weak between her loin and back ribs, 
got by that grand old bull " Dorchester," was preferred to 
Mr. Heasman's " Famous," winner at the Wells, put as reserve 
number, Mr. Hodgson's " Pitcher 3rd " being second. Mr. 
Stewart Hodgson carried off the prize in the Heifer in-Milk 
or in-Calf Class with " Crocus ;" and in the Yearling Class 
with " Laura," in the former of which classes Messrs. Stanford 
were second with a pretty neat heifer, " Rosedew 3rd," and 
Messrs. Heasman in the latter with an unnamed yearling. 
Norfolk and Suffolk Polled. 
This useful breed of animals has figured at the Royal Shows 
for many years ; and it had taken so many prizes and gained so 
much approbation in the class for " other established breeds," 
that it was accorded the dignity of special prizes at Battersea in 
1862, in the report of which Show one of the Judges writes, that 
they " presented several specimens of great size and symmetry, 
with good flesh, and plenty of lean to the fat." Also at the Oxford 
Show in 1870, where twenty-four entries were made, and at 
nearly all the succeeding shows it has been similarly treated. 
There have been wonderful changes in this breed since Mr. 
Almack described it in this ' Journal ' in 1845 in most unfavour- 
able terms,* as those that were shown at Derby, Carlisle, Kilburn, 
and other Shows were particularly well-shaped beasts, with much 
kindliness of character and softness of touch, with evidences of 
good milking properties in the cows, Mr. Sewell Read, in his 
" Farming of Norfolk," in the nineteenth volume of this ' Journal,' 
says that "some little attention has been paid to the red polled 
breed, which are the original Norfolk cattlie." Mr. Raynbird, in 
his report on the farming of Suffolk in the eighth volume of this 
Journal, speaks of Suffolk cows so noted for their milking 
qualities as " still being the most general dairy-breed in the 
county." It is supposed by some that this breed is the same as 
the polled Galloways of Scotland, but good authorities aver that 
it is indigenous to Suffolk and Norfolk. A polled breed of 
cattle will thrive in the quiet of English pastures, but it would 
not answer for exportation, and would quickly be exterminated 
in the ranches of Colorado and Texas, where, as Messrs. Read 
* Mr. Almack says, " There may be some decent animals among them, but 
few will venture to say anything in fheir favour as a breed, except tliat the cows 
prenf rally give a great quantity of milk." — On the Agriculture of Norfolh. By 
Earuch Almack. Koy. Agri. Soc. .Jour., vol. v. 
