POPULARITY OF RED POLLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 358, 19 May 1928, Page 25

POPULARITY OF RED POLLS

DUAL PURPOSE CATTLE Cattle which have come prominently ! to the front as highly suitable for ! supplying the needs of those who wish j to embark on dual-purposeness is the ; Red Poll. The extent to which new herds have been formed in Great Britain, the number of sires which have been acquired for cross-breeding, the extent to which importations of Red Polls is proceeding in South America, the favourable reports on the breed from both dairy and beef points of view in Australia and New Zealand, and the increasing attention which Red Polls have received in South Africa, is indicative of the recognised value of this breed for milk and beef production. Probably at no time in its history has the Red Poll demonstrated its worth in this connection than at the national shows in Great Britain in 1027, as well as on the commercial cattle markets during the whole of the past year. Apart from the Red Poll breed's successful performances in the milk trials at the dairy show where they beat all breeds but one, there is the fact that, at the Smithfield Show, where Red Polls had by far the biggest j collection of baby steers under 15 j months old, the stock there was out of high milk-yielding cows. The win-1 ning young steer was the get of a buli whose dam has averaged 1,250 | gallons for the last two years, while | the champion of the breed was a steer j by the same bull, and whose dam was | out of a cow which had averaged 1,100 j gallons for the last five years. At the ; Norwich Fat Stock Show the winning [ steer was out of a 900-gallon cow, while j numerous other winners at both the j shows just mentioned had a big milk j ancestry. 1