Milch Cows and the Production of Store Stock. 91 
Red Polls. 
One example of the dual-purpose cow belonging to this 
breed, and that a very notable one, is Sir Walter Corbet’s 
Linda 3rd. Besides producing 6,000 gallons of milk in 
six years, she is the dam of two Smithfield cup winners ; 
one is a heifer, Acton Dairy Maid , which at two years five 
months and twenty-seven days old weighed 16 cwt. 2 qrs. 
24 lb., and the other, a steer, Acton Comet , weighing 15 cwt. 
3 qrs. 18 lb., at two years seven months and nine days old. 
Welsh Cattle. 
Professor T. Winter writes me in connection with this 
breed, which he has shown so successfully for the University 
College of North Wales, Bangor : — 
“ Ours is essentially a dairy herd. At the Smithfield Show, in 1906, the 
heaviest steer under two years old was a Welsh bullock shown by us. He was 
second in his class (as at Birmingham) and weighed 14 cwt. 3 qrs. 4 lb. His 
dam Madryn Rose, one of the best milkers we have — she gives five gallons a 
day when in full milk. The two Welsh steers I showed at Smithfield last year 
(1907) which were third and fourth in their class, were bred from two sisters, 
both good at the pail.” 
CROSS-BREDS. 
Mr. Colin Campbell tells me that the dam of Mr. Hudson’s 
champion heifer Danesfield Rose was Black Lady , a Shorthorn 
Angus cross. “ Black Lady," he writes, “ was a very good 
dairy cow, and gave a quantity of milk of good quality.” 
Danesfield Rose , with Championships and prizes at 
Birmingham and prizes at Smithfield, earned 100L in prize- 
money this Christmas, and weighed 13 cwt. 2 qrs. 15 lb. at 
twenty-three months and thirteen days old. 
Suggestions for the Future. 
The possibility of breeding both for milk and beef being 
admitted, and the waste caused by not doing so being obvious, 
there remains only to suggest some practical way of reducing 
the number of unsuitable store stock, and of replacing them by 
a supply better suited to the feeders’ requirements. 
That something might be done by agricultural societies in 
the east and south-east of England, and in some other parts, 
seems certain, for in these districts we have none of those 
classes for store beasts found in so many of the small shows 
in the north. Prize-money does undoubtedly arouse interest, 
and it might be arranged so that classes for home-bred stores, 
the property of bona fide tenant farmers, should become a 
popular feature in the programme of every local exhibition. 
We believe that in the north-east of Scotland few classes, at 
any rate among the horned stock exhibits, give proof of greater 
vitality than those above indicated. Again, when competitions 
