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although he urged the necessity and value of such a work, it was 

 not appreciated, and after publishing another volume in 1853 he 

 expressed his intention of discontinuing it. The late W. S. 

 Powell, Esq., of Hinton Court, Hereford, then purchased the 

 copyright, and commenced the third volume : but his sudden 

 death stopped the progress of the work. Breeders, however, 

 began to see its value from the question of pedigree being 

 repeatedly raised by those who sought to purchase, and the 

 copyright was purchased of the representatives of the late Mr. 

 Powell by the Committee of the Herefordshire Agricultural 

 Society, who selected Mr. Dackham, of Bay sham Court, Ross, 

 to conduct it. This he has done with great perseverance ; and 

 although only twelve months have elapsed since he commenced 

 his labours, he has published his first volume (the third of the 

 work), and for the first time has added the cow pedigrees and 

 their produce. The number of bulls in the two first volumes are 

 901 ; they now number 1477. 



I now refer to the show of this breed at the Chester Meeting. 



Class I. — Aged Bulls: 9 entries. — These animals displayed 

 such uniformity of character, symmetry, and substance, that it 

 must have puzzled the Judges to distinguish any of them. The 

 prize bull, the property' of Mr. Price, Court House, girthed 8 

 feet 7 inches ; another highly commended bull, shown by Lord Bate- 

 man, girthed 8 feet 9 inches. These exceeded in girth the first- 

 prize old bull in the short-horn class by 8 inches — his girtli being 

 8 feet 1 inch. The two Hereford bulls were a few months the 

 oldest. The prize aged Devon bull girthed 7 feet 8 inches. The 

 bulls exhibited by Mr. Rea, of VVestonbury, Lord Bateman, and 

 Lord Berwick, were all first-class animals, and deservedly re- 

 ceived the high commendation of the Judges. 



Class II. — Young Bulls : 15 entries. — Five of them were dis- 

 tinguished by the Judges. The two prize bulls were promising, 

 thick-fleshed animals, but their colour might have been better. 

 Considering the number in the class, there was room for improve- 

 ment. It is somewhat singular that the five selected bulls in 

 this class Avere all shown by different breeders from those in 

 Class L 



Class III. — Bull Calves: 14 entries. — Among them were 

 several promising animals ; but, considering the number, they 

 did not (collectively) rank so high in estimation as the other 

 classes. 



Class IY, — Cows in Milk or Calf: 8 entries. — This class was 

 better than usual. In addition to the two prize animals and one 

 highly commended, the Judges " commended the class generally." 



