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the bulls are used in the " American Herd-Book," while 

 new numbers are assigned them in Alexander's " Short- 

 Horn Record." 



The dash ( ) is used in each of the forms given to 

 indicate the "next dam," and thus save space in the 

 record. 



Hereford pedigrees : 



" 376 COTMORE w. P., calved 1836, bred by the late 

 Mr. T. Jeffries, by Old Sovereign (404), dam by Lottery 

 (410). At Mrs. Jeffries's sale 1844 Cotmore was bought 

 in for 100 ; he won, at different times, the prizes for 

 two-year-old, three-year-old, and aged bulls at Hereford ; 

 and the first prize for Hereford bulls at the meeting of 

 the Royal Agricultural Society at Oxford ; Cotmore's 

 dam, at the Grove sale 1844, was sold for 33." (" The 

 Herd-Book of Hereford Cattle," vol. i., p. 52. See page 

 164 for extended pedigree.) 



"(3434) SIR CHARLES. 



Red with white face, calved February 14, 1867 ; bred 

 by and the property of Mr. F. W. Stone, Moreton Lodge, 

 Guelph, Canada ; got by Guelph (2023), dam (Graceful) 

 by Severn (1382), g. d. (Lady) by Albert Edward (859), 

 g. g. d. (Zephyr) by Walford (871), (Friday the Sec- 

 ond) T)y Wonder (420) (Friday) by Commerce (354), 

 (Pretty Maid) by The Sheriff (356), (Sovereign) 

 (404)." ("Herd -Book of Hereford Cattle," vol. vii., 

 p. 125.) 



The cows in all the above cases are identified by the 

 name of their sire following their own. w. F. after 

 Cotmore means white face ; in the first volumes of the 



