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them into beef for the English market ; and being of great con- 

 stitution and hardy, they make most excellent grazing cattle." 



While the stock were at his farm, Mr. Corning, with his accus- 

 tomed liberality and enterprise, sent their importer out again 

 to England to purchase more animals, which safely arrived, and 

 were add*ed to the herd. They were then successfully bred for 

 several years, many sales made into different and distant parts 

 of the United States, and they acquired considerable popularity. 

 The herd was subsequently divided, Mr. Corning retaining his 

 ehare, and his partner taking his, some twenty or more in num- 

 ber, on to a farm three or four miles from Buffalo, on the banks 

 of the Niagara. Here they were bred, and several sales made, 

 to go to different parts of the country, during the four or five 

 years they remained; but the herd gradually waned, mainly from 

 want of proper care and system in their keeping. "With their 

 owner they then migrated into the rich valley of the Genesee. 

 near G-eneseo. In that locality, if anywhere, they ought to 

 have succeeded. But in two or three years further they went 

 to Tioga county, near Owego, where they had another fitful stay 

 of a year or two, and then removed elsewhere, since which we 

 have no record of them whatever, "run out," and sacrificed, 

 in all probability, by mismanagement. 



Mr. Corning retained his herd at his farm, where he has suc- 

 cessfully bred, and made sales from them since, and in the hands 

 of his son, Mr. E. Corning, Jr., who is more an amateur than a 

 professed cattle breeder, added to by occasional importations from 

 England, they remain fine specimens of their race. 



Mr. George Clark, at Springfield, Otsego county, N. Y., 

 obtained several Herefords from this herd, and, we believe, made 

 an importation or two from England. He bred them success- 

 fully, distributed his bulls on to several of his farms, and bred, 

 and still breeds many excellent grade Herefords from the com- 



