POLLED AYRSHIRES.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 268, 24 December 1928, Page 8

POLLED AYRSHIRES.

Scattered through the herds of several farmers in Rutland County, Ver- ■ mont > U.S.A., arq quite a number of purebred Ayrshires that seem to have : the polled or hornless characteristics quite firmly established. In one herd there is at present a three generation group which seems to have the polled characteristic fixed, while another is headed by a very good young polled bull, the dam of which is living, and is also polled. Information at hand shows that he is the fifth knjown generation calved without horns. One of the most striking cases is that of-the

cow Maggie Mason of Ira, 68856, itow owned by Elwood Mack. This cow is an excellent individual, and has a herd test record of 10,7981 bof milk, and 4041 b of butter fat. She is polled, and, according to her former owner, Clayton Fish, of Ira, Vermont, her dam j was also polled. Mated to Peter Pan lof Willow Springs, a grandsire of Beuehan Peter Plan, she produced Lucky Boy of Willow Springs, a polled bull that is now in service in the Mack herd. Of the first four calves from this bull three have been polled. Furthermore, both daughter and granddaughter of Maggie Mason of Ira are polled, which is interesting evidence that this cow has the ability to transmit the hornless characteristics with I * define of regularity. |