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trophies of the Longhorns were some joints that 

 were prized relics of Old Comely, that died at the 

 good old age of twenty-six, with fully four inches 

 of outside fat upon his sirloin. The herd was dis- 

 tinguished above all others for its depth of flesh, 

 and BAKEWELL did not for a moment doubt that he 

 had evolved a type which would "represent the 

 roast beef of old England forever and aye." At a 

 sale in Oxfordshire in 1791 several of these Long- 

 horn bulls fetched above 200 guineas each, and at 

 FACET'S sale two years later a bull of FOWLER'S 

 BAKEWELL stock brought, for those days, the great 

 sum of 400 guineas. KING GEORGE III became in- 

 terested, and honored the wizard with a royal inquiry 

 as to his "new discovery in stock breeding." 



To understand the full import of BAKEWELL'S 

 work it is necessary to know that his great suc- 

 cesses antedated the creation of all the leading 

 breeds of the present day. He had hit upon the 

 secret of how to accentuate specific points and 

 insure their perpetuation. That was the one great 

 central fact developed by his work the principle 

 that proved the forerunner of universal improve- 

 ment in all the various Island types. He little 

 dreamed that through its application to other ma- 

 terials his wonderful Leicesters and Longhorns 



