SUFFOLK CATTLE. Of this once famous. breed of cattle, Youatt says: The Suffolk Dun used to be celebrated in almost every part of the kingdom, on account of the extraordinary quan tity of milk that she yielded. The dun color is now, however, rarely seen in Suffolk, and rejected as an almost certain indication of inferiority. The breed is polled. The Suffolk, like the Nor folk beast, undoubtedly sprang from the Gallo way ; but it is shorter in the leg, broader and rounder than the Norfolk, with a greater pro pensity to fatten, and reaching to greater weights. The prevailing and best colors are red, red and white, brindled, and a yellowish cream color. The hull is valued if he is of a pure unmingled red color. Exaggerated accounts have been given of the milking of the Suffolk cow, and she is not inferior to any other breed in the quantity of milk that she yields. In the height of the season some of these cows will give as much as eight gallons of milk in the day ; and six gallons. is not an unusual quantity. The produce of butter, however, is not in proportion to the quan tity of milk. The bulls are rarely suffered to live after they are three years old, however excel lent they may be, for the farmers believe that if they are kept longer they do not get a stock equally good, and particularly that their calves are not so large after that period. Nothing can be more
erroneous or mischievous. A. bull is never in finer condition than from four to seven years old. Having obtained, by accident or by exertion, a good breed of milkers, the Suffolk people have preserved them almost by mere chance, and without any of the care and attention which their value demanded. The Suffolk cow, poor and angular as she may look, fattens with a rapidity greater than could be expected from her gaunt appearance. Whence she obtained the faculty of yielding so much milk, is a ques tion that no one has yet solved. Her progenitor, the Galloway, has it not. The Holderness could scarcely be concerned; for more than a hundred years ago, the Suffolk dun was as celebrated as a milker as the breed of this county is at present, and the Holderness had not then been introduced into the county of Suffolk. The fattening prop erty derived from the northern breed is yet but little impaired. The cow is easily fatteued to 500 to 600 pounds, and the quality of her meat is excellent.