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The General, weighed 3,640 pounds at six years. Another bull, 

 Wellington, weighed 2,912 pounds, had a girth of 11 feet, 3 

 inches, and measured 11 feet, 4 inches, from muzzle to tail-head. 

 Another Hereford bull, Hamlet, weighed 2,800 pounds, and a 

 steer reached 2,912 pounds. At the first Smithfield Fat Stock 

 Show held in London in 1799, a Hereford bullock described as 

 8 feet, 11 inches, in length, 6 feet, 7 inches, in height, and 10 feet, 

 4 inches, in girth, won first prize and sold for $500. Another ox 

 at the same show measured 7 feet in height, and 12 feet, 4 inches, 

 in girth. 



Fig. 16. Ideal of Early Beef Producers. 



The noted "White Heifer That Travelled," a Shorthorn, calved about 

 1806; bred and fed by Robert Colling, of Barmpton, near Darlington, in the 

 county of Durham, England. A free-martin heifer, a non-breeder, fed to a 

 weight of 2300 pounds, completely finished, and publicly exhibited through 

 the principal agricultural counties of England to advertise the beef-making 

 qualities of the Shorthorn breed, particularly the herds of Charles and Robert 

 Colling, first noted improvers of the breed. From an engraving made when 

 she was seven years old. The artist has undoubtedly refined the head, horns, 

 and bone to a considerable degree, yet the picture typifies in the size, massive- 

 ness, extreme fatness, and small bone of this animal the ideals of early beef 

 producers. 



In England and America the attainment of large weights 

 continued to be the aim of beef producers until rather recent 

 times. Early maturity was not given much attention. It was 

 simply a matter of making each animal as large as possible 



