RED POLLS
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR, I see it was recently stated in the notes with regard to livestock that South Devons are a triple-purpose breed, being good for milk, butter and beef, and that in this respect go one better than the Suffolk Red Poll.
If it -is necessary to give a strict designa' Don of the several properties of the Red Poll, then one may even go still further and 'describe as a quadruple breed. Apart from their beef and milk qualities, it is necessary to emphasize, particularly in view of the latest accounts to hand, that the Red Poll is forging ahead to a remarkable extent if one quotes oversee reports not only in South Africa, but likewise in Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania, because of the high butter- fat content of the milk.
This is proving such a fine tribute to the breed that it has enhanced its reputation among cattle breeders in those Dominions just mentioned. There it is a question of butter and beef and therefore the Red Poll is becoming a more or less indispensable breed. Proof thereof is Contained in the Australian Farm and Home; the writer in an account of the breed's progress makes these significant observations "The breed is gaining adherents in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, and new branches of the parent Association in Melbourne are being formed.',' In South Africa where Red Polls are used as trek oxen (this justifies its quadruple description) a letter to hand from a breeder states that owing to the unprecedented demand he has lately spent little time farming owing to the necessity of answering enquiries from applicants for Red Poll bulls, where the supply is unequal to the demand.—I am, Sir, &c., C. H. CL&RICE. 29 Warrington Road, Iproith.,
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