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John Tanner Davy, of Rose Ash, England, the editor of 

 the English Devon Herd-book, inherited the herd of his 

 father, who had carefully bred the Devons for fifty years. 

 Mr. Francis Quartly, whose engraving adorns the first volume 

 of Davy's Devon Herd-book, endeavored, by a long course of 

 selection, and by an intimate knowledge of the principles of 

 breeding, to combine the various elements in the different 

 herds, so as to attain the great object of the Devon breeder, 

 the lessening of the parts of the animal frame least useful to 

 man, as the bone and offal, and at the same time, the increase 

 of such other parts, as fat and flesh, that furnish food, and to 

 do this at the earliest possible age, and with the least con- 

 sumption of food. That Mr. Quartl}^ succeeded in fully 

 establishing these characteristics of the breed, we need no 

 better evidence than that nine-tenths of the pedigrees of the 

 present herds, in Davy's Herd-book, go directly back to the 

 old Quartly stock ; twenty-seven out of twenty-nine of the 

 prize bulls mentioned in that work, are descendants from the 

 bull Forester (46) ; and twenty-nine out of thirty-four prize 

 cows mentioned there, descended from the cow Curly (92). 

 Hundred Guinea (56), another noted ancestor of the Quartly 

 tribe, stands in the pedigrees of this breed, as Hubback among 

 the Shorthorns. Among others who have done much to 

 improve their herds, and bring the breed to its present state 

 of perfection, may be mentioned the Earl of Leicester, 

 James Davy, Mr. Richard Merson, James and John Quartl}^ 

 who also inherited the herds of their fathers, and continued 

 their well-begun improvement. Mr. George Turner of Bar- 

 ton, whose herd was made up from other breeders, Mr. Samuel 

 Farthing of Somerset, Mr. John Halse of Moland, Mr. Wm. 

 Hole of Somerset, Mr. T. B. Morle of Cummington, Mr. 

 George Shapland of Oakford, and Mr. John Ayre Thomas of 

 Rose Ash, Devon, with many others, have caught the spirit 

 of improvement, and continued to progress towards perfec- 

 tion. 



We quote the following from the prefiice of John T. Davy's 

 third volume of English Devon Herd-book : — 



"Mr. R. Smith's Report on the Exhibition of Live-Stock 

 at Chester, England, 'Royal Agricultural Journal,' Vol. IX., 

 Part li. (Mr. Smith was a celebrated breeder of Shorthorns). 



