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took the cream of the lot back to Warlaby, as will 

 presently be noticed. 



It is with the outcome of Mr. TORR'S operations 

 that we are here concerned, rather than in the details 

 of his breeding operations; and as the verdict placed 

 upon his work by his appreciative fellow-countrymen 

 was one of the most flattering that ever fell to the 

 lot of a breeder of improved live stock in any land, 

 we hasten now to present it. He had once said, 

 "It takes 30 years for any man to make a herd 

 and bring it to one's notions of perfection." For- 

 tunately he lived to devote that space of time to 

 the Shorthorn cattle. He died in 1875, and the 

 cattle went to the auction block in September of 

 that year. DUN MORE had just made his $3,800 

 average on 39 head of BATEs-bred cattle. 



Warlaby had been suffering severely for some 

 time from the effects of long-continued high feeding 

 for show. A tendency to shy breeding had already 

 developed, when a virulent visitation of foot-and- 

 mouth came along, bringing disastrous consequences 

 in its train. The stock stood, therefore, at this 

 time sadly in need of vigorous rehabilitation. The 

 herd that WILLIAM TORR had created at Aylesby was 

 confessedly not only the best collection of BOOTH- 

 bred cattle in the kingdom, but the best herd of 



