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DISQUALIFICATION OF POLLED CATTLE. 
All sorts of surmises and remarks were indulged in on tl ic 
subject; one person told Lord Sondes, he was confident the 
horns had been extracted when the bull was young; and 
others, with equal confidence, stated that the horns had been 
burned out since. Although I know .all these statements to be 
utterly false and without any foundation, still, I am directed 
by Lord Sondes to apply to you, as the breeder, to know— 
lstly. Is the bull a pure-bred polled animal ? 
Sndly. Did you cause his horns or “ slugs” to be removed, 
previous to his lordship becoming the owner of the animal? 
You will much oblige me by replying to these queries at 
your earliest convenience. 
I am, dear Sir, yours faithfully, 
Thomas Fulcher. 
Mr. T. W. George, 
Eaton. 
P.S. The bull has a kind of horny excrescence, which 
cannot, in my view, be called either horn or “ slug,” not 
being attached to the bones of the skull. 
Eaton, Norwich; June 18 th, 1864. 
Dear Sir, —In reply to the first query, in your letter 
of the l6th, received this morning, I cannot do better than 
send the pedigree of the bull in question. 
His sire was out of a home-bred cow, descended from my 
late father's stock, and by a bull lent me for the season by 
H. Birkbeck, Esq., which he bought at Mr. Etheridge's sale, 
at Starston. 
His dam, a cow descended also from my father’s stock, 
and by a bull lent me by G. S. Kett, Esq., which he bought 
at the late Sir E. Kerrison's sale. 
As far as my father's stock were bred, I know that he 
would not admit any cross-bred animal. And it was so 
much a difficulty with him to obtain strange and pure blood 
to satisfy him, that latterly he bred very close. 
The father of your bull, of Mr. Etheridge's stock, I have 
now. He is a worker, very poor, and out of shape, but of 
very nice quality. 
Sir E. Kerrison's bull, before-named, was a coarse-headed 
animal, with good back and frame, but much coarser than 
Mr. Etheridge's, and not so good in colour. 
In reply to your second query, I wish to say that I never 
removed, or caused to be removed, or in any way interfered 
with the horns or excrescences you complain of; they were. 
