. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. 368 CATTLE CATTLE Scale of Points for Red Polled Cattle, continued For bulls Perfect score 10. Legs.—Short, straight, squarely placed, medium bone 3 Objections: Hocks crooked; legs placed too close together. 11. Rudimentaries.—Large, wide apart, and placed well forward 12 Position of rudimentaries 6 Objections: Rudimentaries placed back on scrotum, or placed too close together, indicat- ing tendency to transmit badly formed udders. 12. Hide.—Loose, mellow, flexible, inclined to thick- ness, with a good full coat of soft hair ...
. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. 368 CATTLE CATTLE Scale of Points for Red Polled Cattle, continued For bulls Perfect score 10. Legs.—Short, straight, squarely placed, medium bone 3 Objections: Hocks crooked; legs placed too close together. 11. Rudimentaries.—Large, wide apart, and placed well forward 12 Position of rudimentaries 6 Objections: Rudimentaries placed back on scrotum, or placed too close together, indicat- ing tendency to transmit badly formed udders. 12. Hide.—Loose, mellow, flexible, inclined to thick- ness, with a good full coat of soft hair ... 5 Objections: Thin, papery skin or wiry hair. 13. Condition.—Healthy ; moderate to liberal flesh evenly laid on ; glossy coat; animal presented in good bloom 10 Perfection 100 History. Hornless or polled cattle have existed in the county of Suffolk, England, from time immemorial. The probability seems to be that they were intro- duced soon after the Roman occupation. Bede says that the people who settled in eastern England after the Romans had gone, brought with them slaves, their cattle, and all their live-stock. Cer- tain it is the breed has existed in Suffolk as far back as we can trace the history. Of the Norfolk strain of the breed, Mr. H. F. Euren, in the account prepared for the herdbook, says : "The files of the Norwich Mercury show that as early as the year 1778, there were whole dairies of polled cows in ; In the adver- tisements of that and succeeding years, sales of polled cows and bulls are specially referred to. Mr. Money Griggs, of Gately, who died in 1872, in his hundredth year, and who had been for upwards. Fig. 382. Red Polled bull. of eighty years, a tenant of the Elmham estate, informed Mr. Fulcher, when making inquiries as to the breed, that "from his earliest recollection Red Polled cattle had been kept in the neighborhood of ; In America.—There seems little doubt that our so-called native muley cows are descend
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