94 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Duke of Northumberland head a list of seven 

 bulls; the Matchem Cow's daughter a class of 

 four; Duchess 42d a class of three two-year- 

 olds, and Duchess 43d a class of nine yearlings. 

 That these were a beautiful lot of Short-horns 

 is amply attested. Mr. George Drewry, the late 

 veteran herd manager of the Duke of Devon- 

 shire at Holker Hall, writing after, a lapse of 

 fifty y^ars, said: "The two things that I re- 

 member best at Oxford were the Duke of North- 

 umberland and Duchess 43d. These I still 

 think were the best two Short-horns I ever 

 saw." In honor of the young Matchem Cow's 

 victory upon this occasion she was dubbed the 

 "Oxford Premium Cow" hence the tribal name. 

 At a dinner given in the quadrangle of Queen's 

 College during this show Daniel Webster, who 

 was a visitor at the exhibition, said, in a speech 

 which held closely the attention of the audi- 

 ence: 



"In the country to which I belong societies like this exist on a 

 small scale in many parts, and they have been found to be very 

 highly beneficial and advantageous. They give rewards for speci- 

 mens of fine animals and the improvement of implements of hus- 

 bandry which may tend to facilitate the art of agriculture, and 

 which were not before known. They turn their attention to every- 

 thing which tends to improve the state of the farmer, and, I may 

 add, among other means of advancing his condition, that they have 

 imported largely to America from the best breeds of animals in 

 England, and from the gentleman who has been so fortunate as to 

 take so many prizes to-day. From his stock, on the banks of the 

 Ohio and its tributary streams, I have seen fine animals raised 

 which have been supplied from his farms in Yorkshire and North- 

 umberland." 



