120 CATTLE HEREFORDS 



Darling family, his dam, "Jubilee," by "Viscount Wilton" 

 (11824). "Leinthall Beauty's" grand-dam, "Beauty," was 

 also by " Viscount Wilton," and her own dam, " Barbara," by 

 "Ancient Briton," by "Bourton" (11005), another son of 

 " Lord Wilton " ; she had thus united in her the three 

 principal families of the old Adforton and Leinthall breed. 



Several herds have been maintained in Scotland for 

 longer or shorter periods, although the difficulty of marketing 

 the produce and of supplying wants in the breeding stock 

 at such a distance from the home of the breed has led to 

 their being given up. Lumsde'n of Auchry House, Aberdeen- 

 shire, was the chief pioneer who introduced it in the thirties 

 of the nineteenth century and bred for about fifty years a 

 first-rate herd. For about five years (1869-74), the Earl of 

 Southesk maintained a choice herd at Kinnaird Castle in 

 Forfarshire. Herefords nick in crossing with the Shorthorn, 

 West Highland, Galloway, and Polled Angus, and curiously 

 enough the great majority retain their red colour (though 

 there is often a grey hair through it) and the white face. 

 Even in the crosses from the black poll the body colouring 

 is red and the white head hornless. In the great breeding 

 and grazing country of Ireland the breed has secured a 

 permanent foothold. 



Herefords as milkers have never been in the first rank, 

 and they have not hitherto been classed as dairy cattle. The 

 practice of allowing the cows to suckle their calves has 

 prevented the improvement of the breed by the artificial 

 selection of the best milking cows from which to breed 

 bulls. 



That the breed possesses excellent milking qualities has 

 been fully demonstrated by Wm. J. S. White, Zeals Park 

 Farm, Wiltshire, whose cows are hand milked the calves 

 being taken away quite young. The herd is mostly 

 descended from " Pretty face," a cow bought from John 

 Tudge, which gave 7 gallons of milk daily. In the Dairy 

 Herd Competition of the Royal Counties Agricultural 

 Society at Bournemouth in 1905, the herd gained the third 

 prize against eighteen opponents, and was noticed in the 

 Official Report as follows : " W. J. S. White exhibited seventy- 

 four of the best Hereford cows your judges had ever seen, 

 and with an aptitude to milk seldom found in this very 



