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moil cows. His bullocks have, in past years, been highly 

 approved in the New York Cattle Markets. 



About the year. 1852-3, Messrs. Thomas Aston, and John 

 Humphries, two English farmers in Elyria, Ohio, near Lake 

 Erie, imported several fine Herefords. They bred them well, 

 and successfully, as seen in the specimens we have several times 

 met, but with wliat success in their sales we have no intimate 

 knowledge. 



In the years 1860 and '61, Mr. Frederick Wm. Stone, of 

 Guelph, Canada West, made two importations of superior Here- 

 fords from the herds of Lord Bateman, in Herefordshire, and the 

 late Lord Berwick, in the adjoining county of Shropshire, Eng- 

 land, numbering, together, two bulls, and eleven cows and heifers. 

 These were remarkable for their high breeding, and generally, 

 good points. From them, down to January, 1867, there were 

 bred about sixty, and about half the number have been sold at 

 satisfactory prices, and distributed, mostly into the United States. 

 Some of the cows have proved excellent milkers, and all, 

 together with the crosses of the bulls on common cows, have 

 proved profitable grazing animals. But as they have had to 

 encounter a sharp competition in Canada, where the short-horns 

 have for some years, previous to the introduction of the Here- 

 fords, held dominion, as improved stock, and Mr. Stone himself 

 a prominent short-horn breeder, the qualities of the Herefords 

 have won their success, against such odds, solely by their own 

 merits. Such a fact is no small testimonial to their excellence. 



There have, we believe, been some few other small importa- 

 tions of Herefords made within the past twenty years, but we 

 have no particular account of them, or at what ports they were 

 landed. 



Qn the whole, the Herefords have not had a fair trial in the 

 United States, in the hands of veteran cattle breeders, who had 

 the means and opportunity to properly test them by a thorough 

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