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to 800 miles to the slaughterliouse, this quality is a considera- 

 tion of the utmost consequence." 



The South Australian Uegister, Oct. 11, 1870, in the report of 

 the Adelaide meeting, says : " The first place in the programme 

 is conceded to Mr. Price's imported Hereford bull. Never was 

 priority of position more deserved." He was acknowledged to 

 be the monarch of the yard. The Maitland Mercury, Aug. 17, 

 1871, in the report of the Singleton Show, says : " Such beasts 

 as were exhibited are seldom seen in this or any other district j 

 it was impossible to view them without thinking of the roast 

 beef of old England; " and thus describes Mr. White's prize bull 

 Prince of Wales : " With a coat of velvet, a mild, gentle eye, 

 and quiet temper, that seems more like that of a lamb than 

 that of a bull." And Mr. A. A. Dangar's colonial-bred heifer : 

 " We think, in quality and condition, this animal is perfect." 

 And recently, in commenting on the splendid white-faces at 

 the sixteenth annual show of the National Agricultural Society 

 of Victoria, calls attention to the fact that both Sir Eoger and 

 Greneral Grordon, the first-prized, aged, and yearhng bulls shown 

 by Mr. J. H. Angus, were bred by Mr. Reynolds, at Tocal, who 

 is spoken of as one of the most successful breeders of Herefords. 



The Australasian, in the report of the Sydney Show, 1871, says : 

 " The feature of the exhibition was undoubtedly the cattle, and, 

 of the cattle, especially the Herefords. Without disparaging 

 the exhibition of Shorthorns, it is but fair to state that they did 

 not equal the Herefords ; nor, if the exhibition of fat stock be 

 any criterion of the success of the breeders, did they prove any 

 essential adaptability to either climate or pasturage. Mr. 

 White's pen of fat oxen were magnificent animals, and they 

 appeared to assert their supremacy as being the prime st of the 

 prime; and the Hereford cattle will remain on the annals of 

 the exhibition of 1871 as the main feature of excellence." 

 A considerable number of Hereford bulls have recently been 

 exported to South America, and their value as a cross upon 

 the native breeds have been most satisfactorily tested. 



In 1878, the importation of cattle from the United Kingdom 

 of Great Britain to Australia was prohibited. For several 

 years a ninety days' quarantine was imposed, but, in conse- 

 quence of the continued prevalence of "foot and mouth disease '*^ 



