. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. 376 CATTLE CATTLE November 13, 1889, and was chartered November 2, 1890. Three volumes of the American Polled Durham Herdbook have been published, the first having appeared in 1894. "Animals to be eligible to entry in the American Polled Durham Herdbook must be at least six months old ; must be natu- rally hornless ; must have both parents recorded therein or have one parent recorded in the book and the other parent recorded in the American Shorthorn Herdbook ; and further, must have all ancestry that are eligible recorded i
. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. 376 CATTLE CATTLE November 13, 1889, and was chartered November 2, 1890. Three volumes of the American Polled Durham Herdbook have been published, the first having appeared in 1894. "Animals to be eligible to entry in the American Polled Durham Herdbook must be at least six months old ; must be natu- rally hornless ; must have both parents recorded therein or have one parent recorded in the book and the other parent recorded in the American Shorthorn Herdbook ; and further, must have all ancestry that are eligible recorded in the American Polled Durham ; Literature. A. H. Sanders, Shorthorn Cattle, Sanders Pub- lishing Company, Chicago ; Lewis P. Allen, History of Shorthorn Cattle ; C. J. Bates, Thomas Bates and the Kirklevington Shorthorns, London (1897); W. H. Beaver, An Arithmetical Arrangement of the Leading Shorthorn Tribes ; Thomas Bell, History of Improved Shorthorn-Durham Cattle (1871); William Housman, The Improved Shorthorn, London (1876); Plumb, Little Sketches of Famous Beef Cattle, Columbus, Ohio (1904); herdbooks of the various Shorthorn associations. [For further references, see page 302.] Sussex Cattle. Figs. 387, 388. By Overton Lea. Sussex cattle are so called from the county of that name in England, where they most abound. They are distinctly a beef breed. Description. For a short description, by way of comparison, imagine a Devon with the weight of a Shorthorn, and the picture will convey an accurate idea of the Sussex. More particularly, "the horns are of medium length, coming out at any angle, but generally horizontally, branching laterally, and turning upward toward the ends ; nose tolerably wide, with muzzle of flesh-color; thin between the nostrils and well covered ; rump flat and long; tail with white brush, which should drop perpendicularly ; thigh flat outside and full inside; coat soft and silky, with a mellow touch ; color solid red, both light and
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