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I do not hesitate to advance the claim, realizing 

 fully its sweeping nature, that the evolution and 

 fixing of the modern American Hereford type, 

 through adroit manipulation of the imported mate- 

 rial, has been one of the most notable achievements 

 in all the annals of cattle-breeding, ancient or 

 modern. In their successful execution of a well- 

 conceived plan, in the extraordinary accomplish- 

 ments following the blending of the Anxiety, Gar- 

 field, Wilton, Sir Richard 2d and other bloods, the 

 Hereford cattle-breeders of the cornbelt have given 

 proof of a skill and capacity for original work in 

 type modification and development not surpassed 

 by any like group in the old world at any period, 

 and not yet equaled on this side the Atlantic, in so 

 far as the records of the flesh-bearing breeds of 

 cattle are concerned. 



I have personal recollection of what the English 

 Hereford was in the late seventies and early eigh- 

 ties. I knew the Anxietys, "old Grove," Tregrehan 

 and "old Dick." I saw Garfield when first imported. 

 I saw the Wiltons in all their Royal showyard 

 beauty. Year in and year out I made the rounds 

 of the pastures and paddocks in which the English 

 ingredients were being mixed, and year by year I 

 watched the ever-rising standard of the American 



