. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. 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 descendants, more or less mixed with other strains, of the Norfolk and Suffolk cows brought over by the early emi- grants from that section. They have been preserved from extinction by the persistence of their
. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. 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 descendants, more or less mixed with other strains, of the Norfolk and Suffolk cows brought over by the early emi- grants from that section. They have been preserved from extinction by the persistence of their good qualities. The persistence with which the old Suf- folk traits are transmitted, under what would seem most adverse conditions, finds a striking illustration in what were known in Massachusetts as James- town cattle. In 1847, during the famine in Ireland,. Fig. 383. Red Polled cow. Olena. the people of Boston sent a shipload of provisions to that country to relieve the distress. As a slight token of appreciation, a Mr. Jeffries, living near Cork, presented to the captain a Suffolk polled heifer. She was delivered by him to the donors of the provisions, and was sold at auction for the benefit of the fund. She proved a remarkably line milker, and her progeny (mostly bulls, by what were then known as Alderney sires) were used largely in the dairy herds about Boston. The prog- eny of these half-blood Suffolk bulls were nearly all hornless, and were so superior to the ordinary cattle of the district as to become noted. They were known as Jamestown cattle, from the name of the vessel in which the heifer came over. At several local fairs they were shown in considerable numbers. The first regular importation of Red Polled cattle for breeding purposes was made by G. F. Taber, of New York, in 1873. This importation consisted of a bull and three heifers. In 1875, he imported four more cows, and in 1882, three bulls and twenty-three heifers. From this time, the number brought over in
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