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Stowe, Buckingham ; Nigel J. C. Neville, Dulverton, Somer- 

 set ; Henry B. Parsons, Estate Office, Eastwell Park, Ashford, 

 Kent ; John Riley, Putley Court, Ledbury, Herefordshire ; 

 William Luke Riley, Wyken House, Coventry ; William 

 Hanson Sale, Arden Hill, Atherstone, Warwickshire; W. 

 Cecil Salt, Willington Hall, Burton-on-Trent ; Charles 

 Tollemache Scott, Bosworth Park, Nuneaton ; H. Jasper 

 Selwyn, Rhyl Manor, Dulverton, Somerset ; W. S. Shaw, 

 Senior, Lodge Croft, Fradley, Lichfield, Staffordshire ; W. S. 

 Shaw, Junior, Fradley Old Hall, Lichfield, Staffordshire ; W. 

 Weston Swirmerton, Stivichal Grange, Coventry ; George 

 Henry Tanser, Bilstone House, Twycross, Atherstone ; 

 William Thirlby, Ibstock, Leicester ; Edward Tingey, Dersing- 

 ham, King's Lynn, Norfolk ; John R. Watson, South Mosses, 

 Lampleugh, Cumberland ; Jonathan Watson, Ullock Farm, 

 Cockermouth, Cumberland ; Thomas H. Weetman, Atherstone. 

 There is no export trade ; but a good demand exists for 

 bulls for crossing purposes, and for Longhorn females to 

 form new herds. There is every indication that the breed 

 will increase and become one of the standard general-purpose 

 breeds of the country, and when its qualities are better 

 known it cannot fail to establish itself in our cattle-rearing 

 colonies and in other distant parts of the world. It is at 

 present doing remarkably well in the Isle of Man. 



The Hereford breed 1 is not only one of the most pictur- 

 esque, but also one of the most valuable, and, in a cosmo- 

 politan sense, one of the best known British breeds. Although 

 in this country it is distinctly a local breed, in America and in 

 Australia it has become widely distributed and highly and 

 justly appreciated. It appears that all the highest authorities 

 are agreed that, on at least one side of its ancestral descent, 

 the Hereford is closely connected with other British breeds 

 such as the Welsh, the old Gloucester, the Devon, and the 

 Sussex which still possess certain characters in common 

 with the breed under consideration ; notably the orange- 

 yellow colour of skin and the medium length of horn. 



1 All the more interesting points connected with the history of the 

 breed have been focussed by Macdonald and Sinclair in Hereford Cattle, 

 published by Vinton & Co., London, 1886. 



